Common bleak small shellfish and plant detritus. It is found in streams and lakes. The bleak prefers open waters and is found in large numbers where there is an inflow of food from pumping stations or behind weirs. The bleak spawns near the shore in shallow waters. Some are found in deep water. The substrate is not important. The bleak is an important food source for predatory fish. It is more sensitive to pollution than other cyprinids, which might explain the decline in North-Western Europe. Bleak are used as bait for sport-fishing for larger fish. In 1656 in Paris, a Mr. Jaquin
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