The story of a young woman’s struggle with her overprotective mother, and her fascination with a woman directing her in an experimental theater group,...
Mike Leigh’s 1988 breakthrough film already contains what makes him great: working class issues, funny believable characters, and a fine sensitivity for the miseries...
Three boys grow up in the midst of ugly family conflict, in this lyrical evocation of childhood tragedy. When realism comes together with lyricism,...