Hard Truths is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, and David Webber. Set in London, its plot follows the plight of a depressed and nay-saying woman (Jean-Baptiste) and the relationship with her jovial sister Chantelle (Austin).

Jan 10, 2025 · 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 …

Dec 5, 2024 · “Hard Truths” is a tragi-comedy character study of near-febrile vitality. And, entering the sweepstakes rather late in the game, it’s one of the very few great films of 2024. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the co-star of 1996’s “Secrets and Lies,” one of Leigh’s most beloved pictures, makes a dazzling return to Leigh’s world.

Hard Truths: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Samantha Spiro, Ruby Bentall, Jo Martin. Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

Jan 15, 2025 · Hard Truths is now playing select movie theaters in the US. The Mike Leigh movie is set to premiere for UK audiences on January 31. In Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman prone to tirades that make her family and those around her miserable.

20 hours ago · Hard Truths is Leigh’s first feature since the wrongly underseen historical epic Peterloo (2018). Unlike that film, this is a return to Leigh’s more common mode: the working-class tragicomedy ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a very angry British woman named Pansy in Mike Leigh's “Hard Truths.” She walks through life like a tornado of discontent, lashing out at anyone who dares cross her path, whether it's a stranger or a family member.

Sep 7, 2024 · In his stunning new drama, Leigh portrays "living, breathing, flawed but good people", with Marianne Jean-Baptiste starring, in "what is sure to be one of the best...

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,...