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Cooper reviews the movie Vera Drake directed by Mike Leigh.
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No Cup of Tea
Mike Leigh's 'Vera Drake'
British director Mike Leigh came of age in the 1960s, and his movies deliver sensitive studies of workingclass English life, with its signature mix of drear and cheer. Vera Drake follows a cleaning lady whose sunny disposition does daily battle with the postwar London gloom of 1950. Whether kneeling to polish an andiron in a mansion of a wealthy ...See the full content of this document
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