Hard Truths

“Dazzlingly complex, bracing work”—Vanity Fair. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is 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 Chantelle (Michele Austin) 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. As Pansy navigates the world around her, we begin to understand that her anger and outrage may be a cry for help. British director Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) has never descended to easy falsehoods, and an astonishing central performance by Jean-Baptiste as, let’s say, not the most immediately sympathetic person you’ve ever seen on screen, makes for a powerful tragi-comedy of grief, anger, and the weight of the world. "Hard Truths is at once funny and heartbreaking, hopeful and despairing, all thanks to Jean-Baptiste, whose performance is a knotty, hilarious, and excruciating tour-de-force."—Nick Schager, Daily Beast.

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