HARD TRUTHS Trailer: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Pissed Off With Life in Mike Leigh’s New Drama
One of the most anticipated movies of this fall festival season is legendary writer-director Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths. The Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and BFI London selection has Leigh re-teaming with his Secrets & Lies star, Oscar-nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste as London woman Pansy who is frustrated with literally everyone and everything in life who finds solace in her younger sister (Michele Austin). It is a look at complicated family dynamics in a way that Leigh is masterful in portraying with authenticity and humor. The film also stars David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, and Jonathan Livingstone. It is Leigh’s first contemporary film in nearly 15 years since 2010’s Another Year. Ahead of its awards-qualifying run this December, an official trailer has arrived from Bleecker Street Films.
Here’s the official 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 easygoing 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.
Hard Truths opens in NY for its awards-qualifying run on December 6, before expanding nationwide January 10. See the trailer and poster below.
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