EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, ...

Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...

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

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...

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In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly ...

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

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.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...

She's lethal with the put-downs of loved ones and strangers alike, is doing hard time inside her own head, and closing off more and more of the world outside by the day. Pansy's sister Chantelle ...