Hard Truths
Film details
| Film Title | Hard Truths |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 97mins |
| Year | 2024 |
| Country | Spain, United Kingdom |
| Director | Mike Leigh |
| Actors | Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Sophia Brown, Ani Nelson, Jonathan Livingstone, Elliot Edusah, Tiwa Lade, Bryony Miller, Llewella Gideon, Hiral Varsani, Samantha Spiro, Ruby Bentall, Jo Martin |
| Language | English |
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Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle. She criticises her husband and their adult son so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and sales clerks and enumerates the world’s countless flaws to anyone who will listen, especially her cheerful sister Chantelle, who, despite their clashing temperaments, might be the only person still capable of sympathising with her.
It’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste that ultimately shoulders the film… It’s such a virtuoso display of heart and spleen in equal measures.
★★★★★
It’s a film of deep empathy, but a tough one, too. Leigh and his collaborators don’t have any easy answers as to why Pansy is this way, or if she’ll ever be different. What they leave us with is a character who’s richly and roundly drawn.
★★★★★
