But for Pansy Deacon, the protagonist of the writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime Hard Truths, self-defense is more of a default mode. Played by the excellent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pansy is an ...
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Leigh bats the first two questions down like shuttlecocks. There’s a scene in Hard Truths where Pansy and Chantelle are in the cemetery visiting their mother’s grave and Pansy breaks down.
Two-thirds of the way through Hard Truths, Pansy tips her vulnerability to the audience. “I just want it to stop,” she mutters more than once. Leigh ends the film ambiguously, without an answe ...
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stormed News Central TV with a cocktail of half-truths and distortions. This desperate smear campaign against the governor demands a bold response… In what seems like a calculated attempt to ...
In true Leigh fashion, Truths is another kitchen-sink drama that follows all the members of a dysfunctional clan, some of them silently taking on the sort of day-to-day indignities Pansy thinks ...
STC British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main character, Pansy, played with astonishing force by Marianne ...