Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.
“Hard Truths” follows the lives of Pansy ( Marianne Jean-Baptiste ), a depressed, confrontational woman who struggles with ...
Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop process, in which the director worked closely with his actors to create their characters from scratch. As a ...
But for every movie like “Citizen Kane” that gets nominated but doesn’t quite manage to take home the trophy, there’s the ...
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...
Like much of this quietly heartbreaking film, it’s very funny but also pretty bleak. Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has ...
With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given the subject matter — no war crimes, flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in ...
But for Pansy Deacon, the protagonist of the writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime Hard Truths, self-defense is more of a default mode. Played by the excellent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pansy is an ...
Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...