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Article: It's the Movie of the Decade. No No, It's Just a Decadent Movie.; British Director Mike Leigh's `Naked' Take on His Latest Film.
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- The Washington Post
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- January 30, 1994
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Most movies - particularly American ones - come at you with
their turning points and climaxes pre-charted, and heroes and
villains clearly delineated. But British director Mike Leigh, whose
films spring out of a unique method of improvisational collaboration
with his actors, eschews such predictability. In his internationally
known works, such as the already controversial "Naked," which opened
here Friday, "Life Is Sweet" and "High Hopes," events seem to
unfold of their own accord. The effect is a fusion of post-"kitchen
sink" realism and good old well-timed comedy, a quasi-documentary
satire full of lively Albion archetypes, from yuppie gentrifiers to
bike-riding proto-Marxists. Leigh's ...
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