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Article: Meantime: desolate lives in London.(filmmaker Mike Leigh)(Review)
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- Cineaste
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- March 22, 1997
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Long before the critical and popular success of Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh made many low-budget films for television. Most of these subtle and unique works - e.g., Grown Ups (1980) and Home Sweet Home (1982) - depicted the everyday domestic life and relationships of working-class people. These films never received the same critical consideration as Leigh's theatrically released works, though they had a similar preternatural ability to capture the essence of individual behavior and social class patterns.
One of Leigh's most powerful and melancholy portraits of working class life under Thatcherism was the 16mm Channel Four television production (unfortunately ...
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