17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)

Recall This Book - A podcast by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

The British filmmaker Mike Leigh puts the move into movies: he never stops changing, never stops inventing. In nearly 50 years of filmmaking, he has ranged from comic portrayals of ordinary life amid the social breakdowns of Thatcher’s Britain (Life is Sweet, High Hopes) to gritty renditions of working-class constraint and bourgeois hypocrisy (Meantime, Abigail’s Party, … Continue reading "17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices