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The nature of contrivance. How to watch a Mike Leigh movie: The short and Curlies. -- Biography and career outline. -- Character and plot: Meantime and Four days in July. -- Art and narrative: Naked and Secrets and Lies. -- Topsy-turvy girls, career boys: Career girls and Topsy-…
The author discusses the British film director Mike Leigh through an examination of his films as well as several interviews with Leigh and finds that he is a director interested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions.
An examination of the work of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan illuminates the visual tropes and storytelling investigations that position Leigh as an experimental filmmaker who uses the art and artifice of cinema to frame tales of the everyday and the extraordinary alike.