Mike Leigh

GOLDEN GLOBE VINNARE Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll, musikal/komedi: Sally Hawkins: "Happy-go-lucky"<br/><br/>Poppy (Sally Hawkins från "All or Nothing" & "Vera Drake") är en bekymmerslös och glad förskolelärarinna i 30-årsåldern, som bor med sin rumskamrat Zoe. Hennes gladlynta sinne är oemotståndligt, hon tillåter inte någon att dämpa hennes humör. När hon en dag målmedvetet bestämmer sig för att lära sig att köra bil, ställs hennes soliga temperament mot raka motsatsen, den inåtriktade och bittre körskoleläraren Scott. <br/><br/>Mike Leighs senaste film och är en komedi om att ha roligt, om att söka kärlek och om att gå framåt i livet. Leigh har tidigare regisserat hyllade filmer som "Naken", "Hemligheter och lögner", "Flickor i karriären" och senast "Vera Drake". Huvudrollen som Poppy spelas av Sally Hawkins ("All or Nothing", "Vera Drake", "Kärlekens slöja"), som för denna roll belönades med priset för bästa skådespelerska vid årets filmfestival i Berlin. Körskoleläraren Scott spelas av Eddie Marsan ("Vera Drake", "21 gram", "Gangs of New York") och i rollen som Poppys rumskamrat Zoe ser vi den långfilmsdebuterande skådespelerskan Alexis Zegerman.

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Mike Leigh writes and directs this British drama starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy Deacon, a woman suffering with crippling depression and anxiety. Giving in to pressure from her sister Chantelle (Michele Austin) to visit their mother's grave on the fifth anniversary of her death, Pansy reveals to Chantelle that she always felt second in their mother's eyes. As she attempts to come to terms with the root of her issues, Pansy must continue her battle to get out of bed every morning. The cast also includes Sophia Brown, David Webber and Tuwaine Barrett.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Director Mike Leigh takes a satirical look at middle-class values in the 70s. Upwardly mobile couple Beverley and Laurence host an informal drinks evening when their neighbour's teenage daughter, Abigail, throws a party. Tensions arise as bored, bitchy housewife Beverley (Alison Steadman) flirts with her new neighbour, patronises his wife, embarasses Abigail's mother Sue and drives her over-stressed husband to the point of no return.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Comedy drama written and directed by Mike Leigh. Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young and successful black Londoner who, after the death of her adoptive parents, is surprised to discover that her birth mother is in fact white single mum Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). After an uncomfortable first meeting, Cynthia strikes up a rapport with Hortense and invites her to the 21st birthday party of her youngest daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook) where she meets Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan) and attempts to learn more about her family.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Mike Leigh's violent and disturbing look at the milieu inhabited by London's homeless. David Thewlis is the motor-mouthed protagonist Johnny Fletcher; bitter, cynical and on the run from Manchester after raping a woman. He arrives in London, shacking up with his ex-girlfriend, Louise (Lesley Sharp), and her gothic flatmate, Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge), before drifting onto the streets - undergoing a series of encounters which convince him of the spiritual emptiness of modern life. As with many of Leigh's films, the dialogue was often improvised by the cast.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Mike Leigh writes and directs this British drama starring Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake, a woman devoted completely to her working-class family. She spends her time caring for her elderly mother and sick neighbour, but also secretly visits women with unwanted pregnancies, helping them induce miscarriage. With this practice illegal in 1950s England, Vera risks imprisonment when the authorities discover what she perceives as her selfless acts of charity. The cast also includes Philip Davis, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan and Daniel Mays.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD / Restored</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Mike Leigh directs this comic look at one of light opera's most famous creative partnerships. In 1880s London, the writing team of William Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) and Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) looks set to split after the comparative failure of their latest collaboration, 'Princess Ida'. Sullivan is keen to prove himself as a serious composer, feeling that Gilbert's writing has become too formulaic. However, when Gilbert's wife, Kitty (Lesley Manville), takes him to an exhibition of Japanese culture, his imagination is fired, and he enthusiastically contacts Sullivan with ideas for a new project.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>