Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

Hard Truths is now out in cinemas, and here's how Mike Leigh's new movie explores depression in a relatable and original way.

The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’ ...

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 ...

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

This week, the Australian Open came to a close in Melbourne. Madison Keys claimed the women’s singles title with a win over Aryna Sabalenka, while Jannik Sinner lifted the men’s singles trophy after ...

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 ...

It is when observing how the men in Pansy's life revert into their inner shell ... In Mike Leigh's delicate hands, Hard Truths evolves into a fascinating study of the infectious ways fear and ...

We all want life to be simple and smooth, but the reality is, it can be messy and unpredictable. We often avoid the hard truths because they’re uncomfortable, but it’s these very truths that ...