Hard Truths
HARD TRUTHS is another brilliant insightful character piece from auteur Mike Leigh who offers an insightful exploration of grief and the human condition.
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (ANOTHER YEAR), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy's as their clashing temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
*OPEN CAPTIONS MONDAYDramaPT1H37MR2025-01-17Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Michele Austin
David Webber
Mike Leigh
Georgina Lowe
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