Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

“Hard Truths” follows the lives of Pansy ( Marianne Jean-Baptiste ), a depressed, confrontational woman who struggles with ...

Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...

The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first ...

Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.

Hard Truths is a character study of one of the most acerbic, angry, verbally abusive, and ultimately hurt characters put to film in 2024. But because she is so negative, it is difficult to ...