English director
Mike Leigh is not known as a visionary of soft sunlight and gentle birdsong. Nonetheless, Leigh’s difficult, often harsh depictions of Britain’s squeezed middle classes present a people determined to move forward with dignity intact, no matter how grotesquely they have been compromised by outside circumstances. Bittersweet is an insufficient term to describe the observational reality of
All or Nothing (2002).
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