Hard Truths BluRay.DUAL.H Magnet
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Story
Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous exploration of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. Reuniting with Leigh for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden woman plagued by suffering and vehement tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her gentle younger sister, played by Michele Austin (next year), is a single mother whose life is unlike Pansy’s in her own contradictory temperament—filled with the warmth of community from her salon clients and her daughters. This expansive dramaturg’s film takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through suffering and hardship, we still find ways to love those we love, let’s call family.
