Though there were all kinds of forces building, and multiple voices advocating for change, Friedan’s book did seem to break ...

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

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

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

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 through a microcosm of English life, Hard Truths offers a difficult depiction of depression, one which avoids exploitative or extremely traumatic scenes, the empty platitudes of the well-meaning ...

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’ ...

Their home is full of light and laughter, though the girls suffer various pressures at their respective places of work; Pansy‘s life in a clinically bleak semi-detached house with only pigeons, crows ...

It’s a symptom of life history, social circumstances ... Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ (StudioCanal) Hard Truths withholds catharsis, instead choosing simply ...

But as ever with Leigh's best work – and this certainly qualifies – Hard Truths pulsates with humanity ... her as thoroughly unpleasant, one of life's irredeemable misanthropes.

She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta ... In the small and gradual reveal of her life – scene by scene, mundane incident by mundane incident – we ...