Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

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There is no filmmaker alive who understands the mundanity and quiet grace of the human experience quite like Mike Leigh. Over a decades-spanning career he’s found poetry and pathos in the ...

A star rating of 4 out of 5. The opening scene of Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truths sets the tone for this telling familial drama. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed ...

Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...

The company's name was taken from Shakespeare, whose wise fools both instructed and amused, and could speak the truth to the king -- without getting their heads lopped off.

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Like much of this quietly heartbreaking film, it’s very funny but also pretty bleak. Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has ...

Mike Leigh's newest film is a moving portrait of a troubled woman. Just don't expect to watch it twice With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given ...

With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given the subject matter — no war crimes, flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in ...