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WITH award-winning films like Vera Drake, All Or Nothing, Secrets & Lies and Naked, Mike Leigh has cultivated a reputation as a writer- director who loves the company of misery.
Gentle laughter is frequently born of his characters' idiosyncrasies, pouring salt onto their deep emotional wounds without any promise of an end to their suffering and self-loathing by the time the end credits roll.See the full content of this document
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Movies: Review: Happy-Go-Lucky
His latest observational slice of London life will come as a very pleasant shock. Not only is this Leigh's most relentlessl...
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