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Interview with Mike Leigh

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Mike Leigh, a director known for his gritty “kitchen-sink realism,” talked with us about his most light-hearted film to date, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. The film follows Poppy, a sprightly North London primary school teacher as she bounds through life doing her best to make her own luck. Candid as ever, Leigh spoke with us about the development of Poppy's character, working without a script, and his feelings about the “neurotic” art of theater.

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY opens with a limited release October 17th with a nation-wide release October 24th. 

Transcript:

Mike Leigh has won several prizes at major European film festivals. Most notably he won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for Naked in 1993 and the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets & Lies. He won the Leone d'Oro for the best film at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 with Vera Drake. He has been nominated for the Academy Award five times, twice each for Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (Best Original Screenplay and Best Directing) and once for Topsy-Turvy (Best Original Screenplay only).

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