Hard Truths is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, and David Webber. Set in London, its plot follows the plight of a depressed and nay-saying woman (Jean-Baptiste) and the relationship with her jovial sister Chantelle (Austin). [3][4] The film premiered at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on …

Jan 7, 2025 · Hard Truths, released in 2025, is set in post-COVID London and follows Pansy, a working-class Black woman dealing with the aftermath of global panic, navigating a fractured psyche amid ongoing personal and societal challenges.

Hard Truths: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett. Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

Jan 10, 2025 · Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, …

Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented...

Dec 5, 2024 · “Hard Truths” is a tragi-comedy character study of near-febrile vitality. And, entering the sweepstakes rather late in the game, it’s one of the very few great films of 2024.

Jan 15, 2025 · Hard Truths is now playing select movie theaters in the US. The Mike Leigh movie is set to premiere for UK audiences on January 31. In Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman prone to tirades that make her family and those around her miserable.

Sep 7, 2024 · In his stunning new drama, Leigh portrays "living, breathing, flawed but good people", with Marianne Jean-Baptiste starring, in "what is sure to be one of the best...

Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by …

Dec 5, 2024 · “Hard Truths” is a return for Leigh to smaller-scaled, more intimate and, at least at first glance, more narrowly focused movies. Set in contemporary London, it turns on two …