Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Here, Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

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Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone. 12A cert, limited release, 97 min The latest ...

Thirty years after Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin and Mike Leigh joined forces for the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the powerhouse trio have reunited for Hard Truths. Hard Truths is ...

Leigh’s latest film, Hard Truths, follows Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a bitter housewife who takes out her consternation on her husband, son, and everyone around her until she finally snaps.

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named actress of the year for her role in Hard Truths, Mike Leigh’s London-set drama comedy, which tells the story of a woman who suffers from depression and her ...