HARD TRUTHS
2024 Films
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1h 36m
United Kingdom, Spain
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.
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)
Production:
Thin Man Films
World Sales/Press:
Cornerstone Films
https://cornerstonefilm.com
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