An insightful collection of original interviews with the innovative
director of "Secrets & Lies" A five-time Oscar nominee and
BAFTA winner and the only British director to have won the top
prize at both Cannes (for "Secrets & Lies") and Venice (for
"Vera Drake"), Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's
preeminent figures. First trained in theater, Leigh devised his own
method for the making of first plays and then films, based on
months of improvisation and rehearsal with actors prior to
shooting. Leigh's actors invent characters based on real people,
each unaware of what the other is up to or the larger design Leigh
has in mind.
In their commingling of bleakness and humor, Leigh's films
re-create the tragicomic world of people whose everyday lives are
far from glamorous: a world in which "the done thing" usually
prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants, or needs. Leigh's
work has always reflected its times and entered the vernacular,
whether the harsh studies of "Meantime "and "Naked "or the humor of
the now legendary "Abigail's Party "and "Nuts in May," Above all,
Leigh is an accomplished storyteller, and these films deal with
universal themes: births, marriages and deaths, parenthood and
failed relationships, families and their secrets and lies. Leigh
speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before about his life
and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate,
wise, and the owner of a dry and playful Mancunian wit.
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