Hard Truths
12A
Coming soon • FEB 2025
One of the UK's foremost filmmakers 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.
Drama • Challenging • Gripping
Part of BAFTA Nominees
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.
Details
Duration
1hr 37mins
Director
Mike Leigh
Distributor
StudioCanal
Featuring
Marianne Jean-Baptiste • Michele Austin • David Webber
Year
2024
Country of origin
UK • Spain
Language
English
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