Anyone who has experienced Mike Leigh‘s body of work can appreciate the fact that he clearly loves his country and its people. The prolific filmmaker has chronicled numerous eras of England’s history from modern-day dramas such as“Secrets and Lies” and “Happy-Go-Lucky,” to the Victorian era of “Topsy-Turvy,” to the stifling conservative morals of the 1950’s in “Vera Drake.” After segueing to the life of a celebrated 19th-century British artist in 2014’s “Mr.

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