Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh - a filmmaker not exactly ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's ...

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The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...

Mike Leigh is re-teaming with his Hard Truths partners for his next project, which is set to shoot later this year. Cornerstone has boarded for international sales, with Bleecker Street releasing in ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...

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.

Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.