Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

Mike Leigh has managed to consistently create fantastic movies that tap into contemporary Britain with ease, exploring class, ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months ... he builds his stories from the details and detritus of everyday life, drifting from one character to the next.

But through a microcosm of English life, Hard Truths offers a difficult depiction of depression, one which avoids exploitative or extremely traumatic scenes, the empty platitudes of the well ...

Hard Truths: filmmaker Mike Leigh returns for the first time since 2018 with this incredible human drama, and it deserves ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.

“Hard Truths” is somewhat of a reunion for director ... is somebody who has a lot of anxiety and fear… She’s someone who doesn’t enjoy life and doesn’t quite understand why, and ...

“Hard Truths” is somewhat of a reunion for director ... is somebody who has a lot of anxiety and fear… She’s someone who doesn’t enjoy life and doesn’t quite understand why, and ...

Leigh's new movie, Hard Truths, could have been titled Unhappy ... But there's nothing unassuming about Pansy, who leads a life of seething, unrelenting misery. She spends most of her time indoors ...

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 ...