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Article: BOOK REVIEW / A bearded prophet of the wilderness
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 1996
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If uniqueness is the mark of an enduring artist, Mike Leigh
passes the test. There is no one like him. No other playwright or
film director - certainly in Britain - does what he does. He
developed his own method early on and has stuck to it tenaciously
for 30 years, from his first staged experiments on the Sixties
fringe through television breakthrough in the Seventies with Nuts
in May and Abigail's Party to international recognition as an
independent, prize-winning and even bankable film maker (High
Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) in the late Eighties. His integrity
commands respect even if you question the results.
His method is often described as "improvisation". But this is
misleading. It ...