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And yet, his most recent film Hard Truths is more difficult to sit through than most gore-soaked slasher flicks, because it's ...
Like the action in his widely acclaimed new film "Hard Truths", veteran British director Mike Leigh swings between gratitude and despair as he reflects on his life and career. The 82-year-old is aware ...
The uncomfortable genius of Mike Leigh. In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society. A spring morning on a quiet street in suburban North ...
Mike Leigh of 'Hard Truths' poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro during the Toronto International Film Festival at InterContinental Toronto Centre on September ...
There are Pansy Deacons all over the place. She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Hard Truths can also be read as a film in which post-lockdown fears borne of extended social isolation combine with post- austerity fury at the state of the nation. Leigh is open to these readings.
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy of Bleecker Street Mike Leigh ’s first movie in six years finds the writer-director back together with one of the stars of 1996 breakthrough ...
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager.
Entertainment Movies Review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste captivates in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Jan. 15, 2025 at 6:00 am Updated Jan. 15, 2025 at 7:00 am By Moira Macdonald ...