Monday 20 June 2016

Vera Drake (2004 Mike Leigh & scr)

It had been a while, eight years to be precise. It's a fabulous cast: Imelda Staunton (won BAFTA), Phil Davies, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Adrian Scarborough and Heather Craney.

Plus: Lesley Manville, Sally Hawkins, Allan Corduner, Peter Wight, Liz White, Lesley Sharp, Jim Broadbent, Rosie Cavaleiro, Nicky Henson, Helen Coker, Paul Jesson, Elizabeth Berrington, Fenella Woolgar, Chris O'Dowd, Marion Bailey.

When you know the police are coming it's almost worse than when you see it for the first time.

Great attention to detail, production design, props, lighting (Dick Pope), music (Andrew Dickson), editing (Jim Clark).

When he won the Best Director BAFTA 'the only person more surprised than me was Scorsese himself'.

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