Mike Leigh has always been one of those directors I have been meaning to catch up with, but after Career Girls, I can't say that I am too excited to see more.
I remember back when Secrets and Lies was up for Best Picture I just knew it was not for me. It looked like non-stylized melodrama, and while my tastes have grown and changed since then, I didn't get much out of Career Girls.
While Leigh's attempts at naturalism, and his ability to let scenes play despite not feeling like set pieces, but rather just an oppurtunity for his actors and characters to vamp and for us as an audience to get to know them, their quirks, their tics, and their facial rashes, it lead to me feeling dissatisfied by the lack of much of anything. I can see falling in love with a Leigh film if the characters are just right, because it seems to fall in love with his characters is to fall in love with his films , but this was not the one for me.
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