Mike Leigh on Hard Truths and Universal Truths
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‘Hard Truths’ movie review: Mike Leigh’s painful portrait of depression
Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' is a bleak and hard-to-watch picture of one woman's experience of depression, played incredibly by Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths offers fresh and important take on depression
Hard Truths is now out in cinemas, and here's how Mike Leigh's new movie explores depression in a relatable and original way.
Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year with Support from Team Behind ‘Hard Truths'
Plot details on the film are under wraps as it's likely not even Leigh knows entirely what the film will be about. As is his practice, Leigh comes into a new work only with loose
Hard Truths film review: Mike Leigh deserves Bafta nominations for this incredible return
In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly thirty years after her cast her in the exceptional Secrets & Lies for a new hard-hitting drama.
Mike Leigh (sort of) unpacks his new film Hard Truths
The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's next
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly known for his prolific output — has already emerged. As per usual with the iconoclastic British director,
Hard Truths director Mike Leigh: 'I make films for audiences to see, not for awards'
Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations
Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
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
Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM
Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run on December 6, with Studiocanal releasing in the UK today (January 31). Cornerstone handled international sales and is back aboard ahead of the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north London
Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...
Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...
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Hard Truths Captures the Anxieties of Modern Britain
I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I ...
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Hard Truths is magnificent – the Oscars got it wrong
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...