“Hard Truths” is a small independent film that focuses on Pansy, the matriarch of a small family living in London. Pansy is ...
Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s ... to Frances McDormand’s career — the most fascinating. Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Leigh for the first time since her ...
E arly in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the ...
The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie, “Hard Truths,” suggests a remarkable, career-spanning consistency, tracing back to ...