'Hard Truths' Is Infinite Kindness in Movie Form

'Hard Truths' Is Infinite Kindness in Movie Form

It’s a strange sensation, to end up loving a movie that makes you feel physically uncomfortable for nearly its whole runtime. In Hard Truths, from veteran master filmmaker Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a woman at war with the world, and herself, every minute. She practically vibrates with belligerence: She can’t go to the grocery store without having a run-in with the cashier; her husband has given up trying to be kind and mostly avoi…

Hard Truths — Mike Leigh

Six years ago, Mike Leigh produced his first war film, Peterloo, in which domestic unrest in 1819 led British troops to slaughter protesting civilians. At first glance, Hard Truths couldn’t be any more different. It’s an almost surgical dissection of familial misery, unfolding in environments as antiseptic as Peterloo’s were mud-caked and grimy. But like Peterloo, Hard Truths is about a crisis in society and in democracy, the shrinking of the fr…

Hard Truths (2024) - Movie Review

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – Hard Truths (2024) Hard Truths, 2024. Written and Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Elliot Edusah, Tiwa Lade, Jonathan Livingstone, Samantha Spiro, Sophia Brown, Hiral Varsani, and Bryony Miller. SYNOPSIS: Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offense, and ever…