Hey, Oscars: No Sympathy Required to Give Mike Leigh’s ‘Tender Loving Care’ the Consideration It Deserves

Mike Leigh's film "Tender Loving Care" has premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. According to TheWrap, the film is about a week in the life of two social workers. Variety describes Leigh as having a distinctive body of work that has taught generations of actors about unglamorous truth, and notes that despite being nominated for an Academy Award seven times, he has yet to win.

TheWrap calls "Tender Loving Care" a "gentle little gem" that makes full use of Leigh's power of empathy, which is built into his filmmaking process. IndieWire describes the film as piercing with the directness of a closing statement. Deadline mentions that there has been talk that "Tender Loving Care" might be Leigh's last film, due to health issues and aging.

The film stars the "Widow's Bay" star as a London social worker, alongside Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey, and Paul Jesson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. At 83, Leigh continues to make films that are richly humanistic marvels, as described by TheWrap.

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