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

More than 15 years ago, the great British director Mike Leigh made “Happy-Go-Lucky,” a miraculously lovely film about a woman of inveterate good cheer. Now he has created a character study of ...

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 ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly thirty years after her cast her in the exceptional Secrets & Lies for a new ...

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 ...

Mike Leigh movies feel like a magic trick ... their idiosyncrasies in the way they move about the world (cheerfully, as in “Happy-Go-Lucky”; chaotically in “Naked,” to name a few notable ...

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

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