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 ...

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed ...

flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in writer-director Mike Leigh's newest effort. Instead, it's an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from ...

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

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

Hard Truths” is the latest drama from master British filmmaker Mike Leigh, about a very angry woman and the family who puts ...