I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of us, neither on-screen nor off,

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

Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...

Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding British Film and Best Actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. He’s directed some of the best British films of the past five decades. If there’s one thing he’d still like to do, it’s make something without worrying about money.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film Secrets & Lies, which led to Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

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

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager. But she is — apologies to Frances McDormand’s career — the most fascinating.

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018) and Mr Turner (2014),

Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the performance of a lifetime

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truths sets the tone for this telling familial drama.

British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main character, Pansy, played with astonishing force by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Figuring out what’s bugging her is the challenge.