Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh, 1999, UK
160 minutes
Creative partnerships are a kind of marriage; artistic labor is very much like giving birth.
“....It dawned on me during the 1980s that it would be a wheeze to do a film about Gilbert and Sullivan that would subvert the snobbery by dealing with them in a realistic way, by looking at the tension between reality and artifice . . . “ —Mike Leigh
