In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly ...

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.

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...

Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.

“Hard Truths” follows the lives of Pansy ( Marianne Jean-Baptiste ), a depressed, confrontational woman who struggles with ...

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...

British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...

The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

In 1997, Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British actress to receive an Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's drama, ...

Mike Leigh, right, writer-director of the film Hard Truths, poses with cast member Marianne Jean-Baptiste during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2024. (Chris Pizzello/Invision ...