Hard Truths

• Mike Leigh
• 97 min
• United Kingdom, Spain
• 2024
• Fiction

Veteran Mike Leigh returns in familiar style with superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste as angry mother on verbal rampage
Pansy hates everyone. She is a prickly, paranoid misanthrope living in a meticulously clean house. Sharp as a freshly sharpened knife, she scolds most people in her path – from the supermarket cashier to the dentist, but above all, her submissive son and resigned husband. They have fallen into total silence. The only one who tries to understand her is her affectionate sister. After two epic films, Leigh once again focuses his sharp gaze on the ordinary, the tragicomic, and London's hidden corners. Jean-Baptiste reunites with the Briton’s multi-layered cinematic world for the first time since Secrets & Lies (1996). She delivers the role of her life. Anger, warmth, pain, and humor blend together and hit all the right notes.


- Niclas Goldberg

• Drama
• Humor
• Relationer
• Stad
• Feminism