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    HARD TRUTHS

    HARD TRUTHS
    United Kingdom, Spain

    SYNOPSIS

    Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easy-going younger sister, played by Michele Austin (ANOTHER YEAR), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

    CREDITS

    Written & directed by: Mike Leigh 
    Produced by:
    Georgina Lowe
    Cinematography:
    Dick Pope
    Editing:
    Tania Reddin
    Production Design:
    Suzie Davies
    Costume Design:
    Jacqueline Durran
    Make-Up & Hair:
    Nora Robertson
    Original Score:
    Gary Yershon
    Sound:
    Robert Ireland, Lee Herrick, Tim Fraser
    Casting:
    Nina Gold
    Cast:
    Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Pansy), Michele Austin (Chantelle), Tuwaine Barrett (Moses), David Webber (Curtley)

    • Feature Film Selection 2024