Plot details on the film are under wraps as it's likely not even Leigh knows entirely what the film will be about. As is his practice, Leigh comes into a new work only with loose

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, Studiocanal and UK financier Film4.

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly known for his prolific output — has already emerged. As per usual with the iconoclastic British director,

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations