Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality

Telluride film festival Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a complicated, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on Mike Leigh’s new film – perhaps his last – is a poignant, intergenerational drama of happy-sad acceptance that life goes on, until it doesn’t go on.

And then you have to come to terms with the mortality of your elderly parents and by that same token, with the end that is waiting for you too.…