21/20
Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s return to the contemporary world with a ferocious, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. The film stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. This expansive film from a master playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lives of pain and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.