Nearly 30 years after Marianne Jean-Baptiste received an Oscar nomination for her first collaboration with director Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies, the pair are back together with Hard Truths.
Can't stand them. SIMON: Pansy is played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste in what The New Yorker calls a performance for the ages. And Mike Leigh, the seven-time Oscar-nominated director, and Marianne ...
Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...
Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world ...
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 ...
Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.
Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run ...
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set his next project with longtime collaborator Bleecker Street, per Deadline.
Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from ...