The Collection: Naked

#307 – Naked (1993) – Dir. Mike Leigh

One of the most fascinating, complex, and divisive characters is unleashed upon the unsuspecting public in Mike Leigh’s moody and ruminative odyssey through London. Only known as Johnny, David Thewlis captures lightning in a bottle with his live wire acting, which earned him Best Actor at Cannes in 1993. Leigh is no slouch here either, he won Best Director as well, crafting and ultimately capturing the enigma that is Johnny and the strangeness of the world he inhabits.

Bright Side of Life – Review: Another Year

If you’re familiar with Mike Leigh, writer and director of Naked, Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake, to name just a few, then you know that wonderful characters and naturalistic plots are what sustain his films. This also means that any explanation of his latest, and best movie (from what I’ve seen of his filmography), will unavoidably fail to do it justice. I’m still going to give it the old college try, and hopefully you’ll trust me when I say that this is a great movie.