Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
His brother constantly berates him in between roaming the streets with his friend, the skinhead Coxy (Oldman). Their aunt, ...
Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...
The latest from legendary director Mike Leigh is as brutal as they come ...
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Hard Truths Review
Mike Leigh re-teams with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the story of a woman against the world. Read the Empire review.
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...