Dating at any point in your life comes with its challenges, but dating later in life is a whole other ballpark, and here's ...

And yet, Hard Truths itself is astonishingly sensitive ... As he follows Pansy across a brief chapter of her life, Leigh doles out hints about her origins, including lingering family traumas ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director Mike Leigh builds his stories from the details and detritus of daily life.

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 ...

Leigh's new movie, Hard Truths, could have been titled Unhappy ... But there's nothing unassuming about Pansy, who leads a life of seething, unrelenting misery. She spends most of her time indoors ...