milieu

Surely Leonardo’s erotic and emotional subjectivity within a repressive milieu was not nothing in shaping his worldly explorations — especially as a “disciple of experience” — but Burns doesn’t go there.

But much of the action takes place in ordinary rooms and pubs, often dimly lighted as befits a milieu cloaked in secrecy and insularity.

Did you feel at home in the rock milieu of the ’80s?

“It wasn’t as if I was like, ‘I’m going to be making five sex-worker films,’” Baker says when asked about his constant returning to this particular milieu.

"No doubt there will be some debate over Leigh’s qualifications to portray this particular milieu, a middle-class and upper working-class sector of London’s Afro-Caribbean community," noted Screen Daily's Jonathan Romney in his review.