Meantime Q&A | Mike Leigh in Conversation

Mike Leigh in Conversation - Part 2: Episode 1 The second half of our season of live conversations with Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon began with a screening and Q&A for Leigh's 1983 film Meantime. A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic council flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a well-meaning aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). Recorded on 19 October 2022 at The Garden Cinema 39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ Watch more Mike Leigh in Conversation:    • Mike Leigh in Conversation   Visit our website: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/ Follow us on Twitter:   / thegardencinema   Follow us on Instagram:   / thegardencinema