His brother constantly berates him in between roaming the streets with his friend, the skinhead Coxy (Oldman). Their aunt, ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...
His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...
The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.
there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...
You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...
British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century ...