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* ProductionPosse: He frequently works with Creator/LesleyManville.

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* ProductionPosse: He frequently works with Creator/LesleyManville.Creator/LesleyManville and Creator/TimothySpall.
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* ThrowItIn: Basically how he and his actors make their films.

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* ThrowItIn: Basically how he and his actors make their films.films.
* ProductionPosse: He frequently works with Creator/LesleyManville.

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* ''Film/AnotherYear''
* ''Film/HappyGoLucky''
* ''Film/MrTurner''
* ''Film/SecretsAndLies''
* ''Film/TopsyTurvy''
* ''Film/VeraDrake''

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* ''Film/AnotherYear''
''Film/{{Naked|1993}}'' (1993)
* ''Film/HappyGoLucky''
''Film/SecretsAndLies'' (1996)
* ''Film/MrTurner''
''Film/TopsyTurvy'' (1999)
* ''Film/SecretsAndLies''
''Film/VeraDrake'' (2004)
* ''Film/TopsyTurvy''
''Film/HappyGoLucky'' (2008)
* ''Film/VeraDrake''''Film/AnotherYear'' (2010)
* ''Film/MrTurner'' (2014)
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* ''Film/MrTurner''
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: ''Film/HappyGoLucky'' appears to be an "anti-miserableist" film and his other films are presented with a fair amount of heart and human emotion.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: ''Film/HappyGoLucky'' appears to be an "anti-miserableist" film and his other films are presented with a fair amount of heart and human emotion.emotion.
* ThrowItIn: Basically how he and his actors make their films.
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Mike Leigh (20 February 1943) is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors.

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Mike Leigh [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (20 February 1943) is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors.
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* {{Expy}}: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.
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* [=Expy=]: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.

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* [=Expy=]: {{Expy}}: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.
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* [[Expy]]: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.

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* [[Expy]]: [=Expy=]: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.
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!! Tropes Associated with Mike Leigh Work

* [[Expy]]: His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Creator/YasujiroOzu. This makes sense as Mike Leigh has said that he loves all of Ozu's films.
* SignatureStyle: His purpose with his movies is to "capture reality and present "emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, and vulnerable films".
* SliceOfLife: Many of his films are rather slow-moving and decide to capture a moment of life with these characters rather than tell a story in a traditional way.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: ''Film/HappyGoLucky'' appears to be an "anti-miserableist" film and his other films are presented with a fair amount of heart and human emotion.
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Mike Leigh is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors.

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Mike Leigh (20 February 1943) is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors.
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Mike Leigh is a British film and theatre director. He also writes most of the things he directs, if "writes" is the word: his preferred process is start with a basic concept and then expand it through a lengthy period of improvisation and rehearsal in collaboration with the actors.

!!Works by Mike Leigh with their own pages include:

* ''Film/AnotherYear''
* ''Film/HappyGoLucky''
* ''Film/SecretsAndLies''
* ''Film/TopsyTurvy''
* ''Film/VeraDrake''
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