Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication ...
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for Hard Truths, a hilarious heartbreaking look at hate versus acceptance. Read on for our review.
The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.
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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 ...
Having grown up in the rubble of post-WWII Great Britain, Leigh knows the impact fascism can have perhaps more than most.
You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...
Mike Leigh is one of England's most well-renowned film directors, particularly for his mastery of kitchen-sink realism and his hard-nosed dramas about ordinary people. Throughout his career ...