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Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
Leigh's 'Hard Truths' collaborators Bleecker Street, StudioCanal, Cornerstone and Film4 are reuniting on the untitled project
As per usual with the iconoclastic British director, details are scare, but the new project will shoot this year and see Leigh reunite with his “Hard Truths” collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, Studiocanal and financier Film4. “Hard Truths” – which Bleeker Street released earlier in January – stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions and prone to tirades against her husband, son and anyone who looks her way. It received BAFTA nominations for outstanding British film and leading actress for Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Leigh for the first time since “Secrets & Lies,” but was snubbed by Oscars voters.
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