Spall had previously acted in Leigh's bittersweet drama Secrets and Lies, which won the Palme d'Or back in 1996.
Marleen Gorris, who did "Antonia's Line," directed this heady, bittersweet drama, based on one of Vladimir Nabokov's lesser-known novels - Thursday at 9 05 a.m. on Cinemax.
This bittersweet drama may remind some theater audiences of Eric Bogosian's slacker navel-gazer, "subUrbia," but it's distinguished by a style that turns inarticulateness into the sort of poetry that rewards close listening.
This bittersweet drama centres on Maggie (played by Caroline Quentin), a woman on the cusp of 40 who seems quite contented with her lot as a wife and mother of two.
Such concerns, though, are really just a backdrop to Weir's wry, witty and bittersweet drama, with its neat nesting of one story, the Chinese opera performed in the second act, within another, and whose story lines tellingly converge.
Here, he takes George Clooney further into his silver years with this bittersweet drama about a man, played by Clooney, who discovers after his wife's death that she was cheating on him.
Man On The Moon cannot risk attempting to be funny on its own account; it has to establish a complementary tone of respectful, bittersweet drama as a showcase for the implied comic genius.
As reflected in the opposing worlds of Sicilia, the cold, authoritarian kingdom in which the story's sorrowful aspects unfold, and Bohemia, an arcadian hotbed of intrigue and sensuality, the bittersweet drama alternates extravagantly between the tragic and comic: it's not clear until the final moments whether things will end in tears of joy or despair.
Infinitely more tasteful, Hajime Kadoi's "Vacation" is a bittersweet drama about a middle-age prison guard who agrees to assist in an execution in exchange for a week's vacation — time he'll use to take a honeymoon with his new bride, a young widow he barely knows.
Fans of "The Seafarer" and "Shining City" have another Conor McPherson drama to look forward to with this typically bittersweet play about three generations of Dubliners (1 45).
