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Article: The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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by Ray Carney with contributions by Leonard Quart. Cambridge. MA and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 304 pp., illus. Hardcover: S49.95 and Paperback: S17.95.
The theater, television, and film director Mike Leigh is one of Britain's most distinctive creative voices, responsible for a series of idiosyncratic tragicomedies--from Bleak Moments (1972) to Secrets & Lies (1996)-- that explore the psychosocial dynamics of extended family relationships. Yet, it is a body of work that has only recently begun to attract serious critical attention and, as recently as 1997, Leigh himself felt sufficiently aggrieved to chastise BAFTA (The British Academy of Film ...
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... ... the Hampstead Theatre revival of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, 25 years ... cliches), the abiding question with Mike Leigh is whether he inhabits the rich vernacular ... affecting at the same time. But the real Mike Leigh doesn't quite fit that image ...
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