Cannes 1993 – Palm d’Or, Best Actor & Best Director

Johnny from Manchester is highly intelligent, rudely articulate, possibly a classic case of romantic turned cynic and certainly a man for whom life has turned almost terminally sour. He likes no one, least of all himself, and he dislikes women even more than men, relapsing into sexual violence as his misogyny takes hold. – Guardian

“This is the greatest David Thewlis performance, in one of the greatest Mike Leigh films.” – Times (UK)

“I’ve been a Mike Leigh fan since 1977’s Abigail’s Party (as good as Molière). Naked is, I suppose, his deepest film” – Susan Sontag