A New Soap Opera Looks to Rekindle the Past While Breaking New Ground
Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to bring the genre back to the ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste In Hard Truths Reminds Us We’re Overlooking Older Black Women’s Mental Health
Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...
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Hard Truths review - a bravura, hyperreal performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste
A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...