![]() ![]() Save for a handful of period forays-including Topsy-Turvy (1999), Vera Drake (2004), Mr. Turner (2014), and Peterloo (2018)-his films are typically set in contemporary Britain, and revolve around the lives of resolutely unspectacular people grappling with the often grim yet sometimes humorous vagaries of everyday existence in a nation known for its rigid, though seldom openly articulated, class structure. ![]() In a filmmaking career spanning five decades-encompassing numerous television films (often made for the BBC), and a string of theatrically released features-the British writer-director Mike Leigh has developed a formidable and stylistically unique body of work that is chiefly preoccupied with exploring the foibles of human nature. ![]()
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