As an evocation of English working-class life half a century ago, it feels utterly authentic, and is ennobled -- not too strong a word, I think -- by Imelda Staunton's performance in the title role.
Marvellous, though it is smaller in emotional range than such earlier Mike Leigh films as the goofy bourgeois satire "High Hopes" (1988), the candid and piercing "Secrets & Lies" (1996), and the splendid theatrical spectacle "Topsy-Turvy" (1999).
Production Company
Les Films Alain Sarde,
UK Film Council,
Inside Track Productions,
Thin Man Films,
Film Council Premiere Fund,
Ingenious Film Partners,
Inside Track 1,
National Lottery through UK Film Council,
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