Mike Leigh, probably the major discovery of this year's San Francisco Film Festival, is a brilliant yet low-key director. His films are rooted in experimental theatre, in that they are the collective creation of a stock company of actors who invent the dialogue based on Leigh's conception. Leigh then hones this dialogue into a script, so that the films, while not improvised, still come across as a miracle of spontaneity. "Home Sweet Home, Leigh's melancholy variation on 'Postman's Knock,' centers on three postmen whose domestic lives on a suburban estate are more loosely (and painfully) entangled than they realize. Home Sweet Home has been described by Clive James as 'the most daring raid on the inarticulate yet'" (National Film Theatre, London).