Hard Truths
Just 97 minutes long, 'Hard Truths' is a deceptively slight movie that can barely contain its titanic central performance.
Hard Truths
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.
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film,
Auteur Cinema,
Comedy
Runtime
97
Language
English
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer(s)
Mike Leigh
Cast
Marianne Jean-Baptiste,
Michele Austin,
David Webber,
Tuwaine Barrett,
Ani Nelson,
Sophia Brown,
Jonathan Livingstone
Awards:
Nominee, Best Foreign Film, Spirit Awards
Winner, Best Lead Performance, Los Angeles Film Critics Association