13/39
Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s return to the present with a passionate, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, this sweeping film from a master playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty and that most enduring of human mysteries: that even after a lifetime of pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.