Tag: Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh’s Tender, Loving Career

Posted by Max Borg | Sep 22, 2026 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2026 |

The great English director Mike Leigh might be done with filmmaking after his sixteenth feature ‘Tender Loving Care’, currently playing on the festival circuit.

Hard Truths

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2024 |

Mike Leigh returns from a lengthy excursion shooting period films to the kind of chamber piece he excels in, in ‘Hard Truths’, a small story about family dysfunction magnified into high drama by Mariane Jean-Baptiste’s formidable lead performance as a wife and mother going over the edge.