“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people ...
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 ...
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 ...
“There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh ... International Film Festival this past fall, Hard Truths was lauded in large part for Leigh’s ...
Papal thriller “Conclave” leads the race for the 78th British Academy while genre-bending musical “Emilia Pérez” faces a test ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering study of everyday misery ...