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I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick since it was directed by Mike Leigh, I thought I might as well give it a try. Even though it seems to be one of his less known movies, it was actually really good and I think it is actually criminally underrated. I never noticed this before but Mike Leigh has made quite his share of movie dealing with women (‘Happy-Go-Lucky’, ‘Vera Drake’ and ‘Secret & Lies’) and I think he makes some interesting portrayals of female characters. To be honest, I didn’t care much for ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’, even though I enjoyed it, I never understood why everybody was so raving about and I thought it was vastly overatted. On the other hand, this movie which doesn’t deal with one woman but two, was also a typical Leigh movie about common people in a realistic social and economic world but the big difference is that I thought that they were captivating. Indeed, those two actresses, Katrin Cartlidge who already passed away more than a decade ago and Lynda Steadman who I haven’t seen ever again, were quite brilliant and with the sober directing by Leigh, they had all the space to properly develop their characters. Anyway, to conclude, I really liked this flick a lot and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.
8/10
