Common bleak Common bleak The common bleak ("Alburnus alburnus") is a small freshwater coarse fish of the cyprinid family. The body of the bleak is elongated and flat. The head is pointed and the relatively small mouth is turned upwards. The anal fin is long and has 18 to 23 fin rays. The lateral line is complete. The bleak has a shiny silvery colour; and the fins are pointed and colourless. The maximum length is approximately 25 cm. In Europe the bleak can easily be confused with many other species. In England, young common bream and silver bream can be confused with
Bleak Moments Bleak Moments Bleak Moments is a 1971 British film, the first film of Mike Leigh. It began as a 75-minute stage play in March 1970 at the Open Space Theatre. Leigh and Les Blair had formed their own company, Autumn Productions, and Leigh wanted to make a film of "Bleak Moments." He was able to realise that desire when Albert Finney and Michael Medwin's Memorial Films, which had recently made "If..." and was about to produce Gumshoe, "delivered the main financial backing, as well as unused spare bits of film rolls." "Bleak Moments" looks at the 'tortured, semi-articulated anguish' in