Naked is a 1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh. Before this film, Leigh was known for more-low-key, subtler comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners. Naked was more stark and brutal than his previous works. Leigh relied heavily on improvisation in the making of the movie, but little actual ad-libbing was filmed; lengthy rehearsals in character provided much of the script. Almost all of the dialogue was filmed as written....
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Naked is a 1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh. Before this film, Leigh was known for more-low-key, subtler comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners. Naked was more stark and brutal than his previous works. Leigh relied heavily on improvisation in the making of the movie, but little actual ad-libbing was filmed; lengthy rehearsals in character provided much of the script. Almost all of the dialogue was filmed as written.
After a sexual encounter with a married woman in an alley in Manchester turns sour, Johnny (David Thewlis) steals a car and flees his hometown for London to seek refuge with his former girlfriend, Louise (Lesley Sharp).
An intelligent, educated and eloquent, if disturbingly embittered man, Johnny consistently keeps up with a reckless and at times borderline sadistic behaviour; he seduces Louise's flatmate, Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge), before embarking on an extended latter-day odyssey among the destitute and despairing of the United Kingdom's...
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