26/41
Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s return to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us together. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, this sweeping film from the master playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lives filled with pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.