Gen Z might disregard the generations before them as old-fashioned and out-of-touch, yet there are hard truths Gen Z should accept in life, according to boomers. While no single person has the ...

Life Is Sweet, seem incapable of even a moment's peace or pleasure? By contrast, how does Poppy, the upbeat heroine of Leigh's 2008 comedy, Happy-Go-Lucky, manage to greet every misfortune with a ...

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

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

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

but Leigh has been sharply focused on the hard truths of human life for his entire career. Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy ...

“Hard Truths” is somewhat of a reunion for director ... is somebody who has a lot of anxiety and fear… She’s someone who doesn’t enjoy life and doesn’t quite understand why, and ...

“Hard Truths” is somewhat of a reunion for director ... is somebody who has a lot of anxiety and fear… She’s someone who doesn’t enjoy life and doesn’t quite understand why, and ...

To live a life entirely of grievance must be exhausting, and as “Hard Truths” rolls on, we see that Pansy is deeply, irrevocably depressed. Thankfully, Leigh and his collaborators surround her ...

Hard Truths, the latest film from the legendary ... You talk about the character, and you talk them into existence, including their life and world. You can't pre-empt stuff or decide how you ...

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 ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months ... he builds his stories from the details and detritus of everyday life, drifting from one character to the next.