Mike Leigh has a new one, and it looks like it's as close to an opposite of Vera Drake as you could get – thank god*:
(Note the name of the unborn baby late in the trailer – I'm taking that as a good omen.)
* VD being the one Leigh film I'm not all that crazy about, mostly because it was too earnest and stiff-backed, a strange thing for a director responsible for some of the most painfully funny (and funnily painful) moments ever put on film.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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