Tender Loving Care

Literal swan song

fran hoepfner

We throw the expression around a lot but this is quite literally the whole point of anything.

Ella Kemp

A filmmaker looking at the end of a life, a career, and maybe even the world as we once knew it, and still finding something to hold onto. What this turns into from where it begins is so lovely and crushing, I was basically crying for the entire back half. Remarkable…

Brandon Streussnig

If TENDER LOVING CARE is to be Mike Leigh’s final film, then what a film to go out on. Four absolutely terrific performances from Kate O'Flynn, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, and Alice Bailey Johnson where the personalities of these charming characters could have me laughing…

Matt Neglia

I cried through the length of Tender Loving Care, until I was lightly dry-heaving and my tear ducts cramped. I cried because of the film’s contents, sure, but also because I will never again experience a new film from the director who has meant more to me than any other…

Sam B.

Just absolutely floored by this. Touched on several personal issues for me, but also managed to be a damning critique of how the social contract has eroded over the last fifty years in such a sharp, incisive way without ever feeling didactic. Mike Leigh is the GOAT.

Marya E. Gates

It’s one thing for it to be implied but another to feel in your bones and your heart that  the whole point is to care and be cared for by the people you love

Ella Kemp

I had no idea as I watched “Tender Loving Care” that this would most likely be Mike Leigh’s final film. There was a talkback afterwards with Leigh and his 3 female leads, who had all worked with him before. It was kind of a heartbreaking moment when he announced this to…

KJL5678

I live with a fear of growing older and never having any meaningful or compelling stories to tell, but in more ways than one this movie reminded me that living with people and loving with people is itself the story and is always worth sharing. Very lucky to experience the…

Sophie Holsinger