We first met Hortense Cumberbatch, the soft-spoken optometrist at the heart of Mike Leigh’s wonderful 1996 ... working-class dramas, such as “Life Is Sweet” (1991), “Another Year ...

HARD TRUTHS: Mike Leigh's first film in 6 years brings back the star of his ... Just as important is the progress they're making in growing up and facing real-life drama. Ashley notes that "life ...

Spanning genres from crime to horror to romantic comedies and more, these are 35 classic movies that are based on novels.

there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...

Hard Truths is a character study of one of the most acerbic, angry, verbally abusive, and ultimately hurt characters put to film in 2024. But because she is so negative, it is difficult to ...

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths ... Pansy about her behavior. Much like real life, Leigh’s unscripted, mostly improvised movies do not offer ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy of Bleecker Street A nostalgic tug got this particular film rolling. Almost three decades had elapsed since Leigh made Secrets & Lies, and Jean ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such ... Now of course I have a feeling about life and ongoing preoccupations, which obviously motivate and drive what I make.