The One and Only Mike Leigh(2014)

🎬105 min
📅2014-11-24
🎭Documentary
9.0/10

Overview

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.

Production

BBC

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Cast

Mike Leigh
as Self
Alan Yentob
as Self - Presenter
Marion Bailey
as Self
Jim Broadbent
as Self
Phil Davis
as Self
Sally Hawkins
as Self
Lesley Manville
as Self
Eddie Marsan
as Self
Abi Morgan
as Self
Dick Pope
as Self