18/18
Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s return to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that unite us. The film stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michelle Austin. This sprawling film from the great playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring human mystery: even through pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.