Grief

A devastating portrait of family dependencies and stifling domesticity by renowned writer and director, Mike Leigh.

It's 1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's hostile behaviour. But is she responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?

A devastating portrait of family dependencies and stifling domesticity by renowned writer and director Mike Leigh.

1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?

'A exquisitely observed, profoundly quiet slice of 1950s suburban life.' The Sunday Times
'Meticulously evocative' Independent
'Leigh makes you laugh and laugh - until you cry.' Time Out
'A haunting portrait of loss and loneliness.' Financial Times
'Leigh's meticulous production potently captures the pain that lurked behind stiff upper lips in the England of the Fifties.' Daily Telegraph
'Extraordinarily poignant' Independent on Sunday