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

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’ ...

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

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.

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 ...

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

Hard Truths: filmmaker Mike Leigh returns for the first time since 2018 with this incredible human drama, and it deserves ...

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 ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a fire-breathing dragon. You don’t have to be long-suffering husband Curtley (David Webber) ...

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

British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...