One of the most anticipated movies of this fall festival season is legendary writer-director Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths. The Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and BFI London selection has Leigh re-teaming with his Secrets & Lies star, Oscar-nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste as London […]

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Its soundtrack devoid of just about everything but the actors’ voices and the piano music they occasionally listen to, and its space confined almost totally to the couple’s spacious flat, Love feels like a purposefully clean movie; an orderly ordeal.

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Is it possible for an Englishman to be declared a national treasure in the U.S.? If not, maybe they'll make an exception for Mike Leigh.

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