Writer/Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 1996
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Mike Leigh knows how to write a screenplay that gives a full emotional development for all characters and he knows how to direct his camera subtly, giving his actors space to fill out those characters honestly.
I like the way he sets up the characters individually, and then slowly weaves them all together, which climaxes in an explosive family gathering.
I also liked Timothy Spall as the Maurice character, and Leigh gives a really nice segment in which we see Maurice, a professional photographer, working with a series of customers.
My critique is that he could have edited this a little shorter, for example: the opening funeral sequence and the sequence when Maurice is visited by the previous owner of his shop has little to no consequence for the main plot.
Mike Leigh knows how to write a screenplay that gives a full emotional development for all characters and he knows how to direct his camera subtly, giving his actors space to fill out those characters honestly.
I like the way he sets up the characters individually, and then slowly weaves them all together, which climaxes in an explosive family gathering.
I also liked Timothy Spall as the Maurice character, and Leigh gives a really nice segment in which we see Maurice, a professional photographer, working with a series of customers.
My critique is that he could have edited this a little shorter, for example: the opening funeral sequence and the sequence when Maurice is visited by the previous owner of his shop has little to no consequence for the main plot.
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