Hard Truths (2024, D: Mike Leigh) S: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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Hard Truths (2024, D: Mike Leigh) S: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Only in Theaters January 10
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. 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 afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. 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 afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
Reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hard_truths
Last edited by dex14; 01-06-25 at 09:38 AM.
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Re: Hard Truths (2024, D: Mike Leigh) S: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste... oh yeah, I'll watch it.
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Re: Hard Truths (2024, D: Mike Leigh) S: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
This is expanding to more theatres this weekend.
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As I watched I just had a hard time reconciling why anyone would ever voluntarily spend any time with her.
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