Michele Austin, muse of filmmaker Mike Leigh and one of the stars of his new family drama Hard Truths, has been a cornerstone of British cinema for over three decades. After first working with Leigh ...

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths ... yet her sister Chantal (Michele Austin), who is her complete ...

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous ... played by the luminous Michele Austin, another Secrets & Lies alumn. Chantelle could scarcely be more different from her ...

Hard Truths takes an astonishingly sensitive approach in telling the story of a bitter housewife.

“Why can’t we share our pain?” In marked contrast, Pansy has a sister named Chantelle (poignantly played by Michele Austin, another Secrets & Lies alum). Chantelle is Pansy’s ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...

Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run ...

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