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 ...

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’s first film for six years is a close ... Hawkins’s relentlessly chirpy Poppy in Leigh’s 2008 film Happy-Go-Lucky, a figure whose one-note mood, however impressively realised ...

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