Mike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from Japan ...
These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths ... “But I make films for audiences to see. It isn’t about a shelf full of badly designed artefacts ...
Delivering hard truths is a full-time job with her ... and shoots the thing in a classical way in terms of film discipline.” Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Corinthia ...
“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.
I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I ...
Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...
In British filmmaker Mike Leigh’s 1996 domestic drama Secrets ... and emphatically glass-half-full. The script does not overexplain how these two women arrived at such starkly different ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...
One of his most accessible and oddly comforting records sports nonetheless an emotional edge that can catch you unaware ...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance took the award for Best Feature at the annual Girls On Film Awards while Emilia Pérez and Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste took awards for Best Ensemble and Best ...
Written and directed by Drew Hancock, Companion is a survival thriller that solders together narrative circuitry from Ex ...