Background
Leigh, Mike was born on February 20, 1943 in Salford. Son of A. A. and P. P. (nee Cousin) Leigh. Leigh was a doctor's son, raised in a working-class area of Manchester.
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Leigh, Mike was born on February 20, 1943 in Salford. Son of A. A. and P. P. (nee Cousin) Leigh. Leigh was a doctor's son, raised in a working-class area of Manchester.
Leigh went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the most celebrated acting school in Britain. He found there an undue emphasis on technique at the expense of reality. He moved away, to art school and the London Film School, with his chief goal being to make films about ordinary existence in which the quality of the acting was so given over to the characters (rather than the actors’ reputations) that the results seemed documentary.
He worked in theatre first, and in 1970 he turned a play. Bleak Moments, into his feature film debut. Since then he has worked in television and theatre, on plays that lie devises and directs, which emerge from a process of improvisation and search by Leigh and his actors. He selects actors for his group out of an instinct that sees ability, a sense of reality, objectivity, and a distinct lack of movie glamour. Leigh then sits down with each actor alone. He asks him or her to compile a list of people the actor knows. They sort through the list and find a few about whom Leigh begins to question the actor, until a kind of gradual natural “casting," or suggestion, lias been achieved.
He then brings the group of actors (or people) together, and asks, what happens if these people meet? Thereafter, in group work (inadequately called rehearsal), they move toward a play.
If that sounds too free or disordered, see the films. As a camera director, Leigh maintains a detached, medical watchfulness that is more caring and demanding than it seems at first, and that has reasonably been compared to the sensibility of Ozu. More than that, “scripts" arrived at by means of group interaction close to the flux of life still possess flights of talk that are hilarious, poignant, and so wordy that, at one moment in Grown Ups. a character savs "A handbag!" and we suddenly see how close this inspired spontaneity has come to Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, and Joe Orton.
Naked was a big advance: it is the film in which real pain breaks through, along with Leigh’s political anger. Suddenly it was easier to see how far the high comedy of low manners had been masking Leigh’s distress with modern England.
Secrets of Lies was classic Leigh, and his biggest hit yet. Career Girls relied on exceptional performances from Katrin Cartlidge and Lynda Steadman. But Topsy-Turvy was a big departure—into fond period reconstruction and the world of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Writer, director: (plays) The Box Play, 1965, My Parents Have Gone to Carlisle, The Last Crusade of the Five Little Nuns, 1966, Nenaa, 1967, Individual Fruit Pies, Down Here and Up There, Big Basil, 1968, Epilogue, Glum Victoria and the Lad with Specs, 1969, Bleak Moments, 1970, A Rancid Pong, 1971, Wholesome Glory, The Jaws of Death, Dick Whittington and His Cat, 1973, Babies Grow Old, The Silent Majority, 1974, Abigail's Party, 1977, Ecstasy, 1979, Goose-Pimples, 1981 (Critics' Choice Best Comedy award London Evening Standard 1981, Critics' Choice Best Comedy award Drama London 1981), Smelling A Rat, 1988, Greek Tragedy, 1989, It's a Great Big Shame!, 1993, (feature films) Bleak Moments, 1971 (Golden Leopard award Locarno Film Festival 1972, Golden Hugo award Chicago Film Festival 1972), High Hopes, 1988 (International Critic's prize Venice Film Festival 1988, Best Film Coup de Coeur Geneva 1989, Peter Sellers Best Comedy Film award London Evening Standard 1990), Life is Sweet, 1990, Naked, 1993 (Best Director award Cannes International Film Festival 1993), Secrets and Lies, 1996 (Palme d'Or Cannes 1996), Career Girls, 1997, Topsy-Turvy, 1999, All or Nothing, 2002, Vera Drake, 2004, Happy-Go-Lucky, 2008 (Best Director New York Film Critics Circuit, 2008, Best Director National Society Film Critics, 2009, Best Screenplay, 2009, Best Screenplay, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 2009). (television films) A Mug's Game, Hard Labour, 1972, The Permissive Society, The Birth of the 2001 Field Artillery Cup Final Goalie, Old Chums, Probation, A Light Snack, Afternoon, 1975, Nuts in May, 1976, Knock for Knock, 1976, The Kiss of Death, 1977, Abigail's Party, 1977, Who's Who, 1978, Grown Ups, 1980, Home Sweet Home, 1981, Meantime, 1983, Four Days in July, 1984, The Short and Curlies, 1987, A Sense of History, 1992, (radio play) Too Much of a Good Thing, 1979.
His special territory is the underclass, of undereducated, often unemployed people. Vet, just as he is a sharp observer of a real society, Leigh is also a play-maker, addicted to actorly recreations of the underclass. He is sometimes described as a social realist. And it is in the ornate, very funny details of masquerade that Leigh may come dangerously close to a patronizing attitude to the people in his films.
Leigh has an obsessive ear for the rhythms of small talk, and he is verv good at getting a certain kind of monotone English humor, of deprecation masked as irony. But he loves the strange lilt of it so much, he is sometimes carried away, or carried beyond the strict realism of character. His films are full of delicious performances—his wife, Alison Steadman, Lesley Manville, Philip Davis, Timothy Spaull, Tim Roth, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks. And some of the films are superbly satisfying, comic, and touching: Meantime and High Hopes, most notably. But the line between the grimly real and the elegantly farcical is fine and perilous, and sometimes we feel we are seeing not so much file as “something by Mike Leigh." There's nothing wrong with that, and much that is good. But there’s also a hint of false pretenses, and a danger of the underclass being condescended to.
Married Alison Steadman, 1973 (divorced 2001). 2 children.