“I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of ...

Hard Truths feels drawn from reality, which gives the movie its own cinematic language. It’s like your creations are the things others will reference later. Mike Leigh: Well, look, to be honest ...

Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is another triumph by that legendary dramatist of working-class British life. But films like Leigh’s are a rare breed these days. Like many of Mike Leigh’s films ...

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’ ...

Where Mike Leigh's excellent movie Hard Truths differs from the deluge of mental health focused media is in its refusal to offer diagnosis. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not the easiest woman ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste quickly realised that being too peppy during rehearsals for Hard Truths was never going to work.

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do. Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Pansy, a middle-aged housewife ...

He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to reunite with actor... Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths,' James Bond and more Some filmmakers have the whole movie in their ...

There are Pansy Deacons all over the place. She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste. When a furniture store ...

Her approach to the world leaves her isolated by many, except her sister Chantelle. Mike Leigh joins us to talk about Hard Truths and his approach to filmmaking. He also shares what types of movies he ...