Hard Truths

12A

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

Mike Leigh's touching new film 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.