Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the film that got away. Never more so than with his flintily moving return to ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of ... When we got to that stage with Happy-Go-Lucky, I said, “You know, it’s somehow primary colors.” He said, “Okay, I’ll think ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly ...

Since English filmmaker Leigh wrote and directed 2008’s wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky, which starred Sally Hawkins as the most positive woman in London, I should’ve known a movie about the most ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 29 January) is Happy-Go-Lucky, the Oscar-nominated 2008 comedy-drama.

In the many beautifully observed working-class dramedies he's made over the past five decades, the British writer and director Mike Leigh ... of Leigh's 2008 comedy, Happy-Go-Lucky, manage to ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.