‘Hard Truths’ Review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste Reunites With Mike Leigh And The Results Are As Bleak As You Might Guess – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comRight at the end credits of Hard Truths it says “any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” I am not sure that is so true.
I know many people who are just as mad at the world for various reasons as Pansy, the main character in Mike Leigh‘s latest depressing look at working class day-to-day existence in Great Britain.
We’ve been here in this bleak zone many times with Leigh, and in fact this is the second time the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste has worked with him, the first being her Oscar nominated performance in his 1996 classic, Secrets And Lies.
She was unforgettable then, and she remains unforgettable now, albeit playing a thoroughly unlikable character in Pansy, a woman who somewhere along the way lost any sense of joy, if indeed she ever had any.
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