Mike Leigh's Hard Truths

The Hollywood Reporter.

Tatie Danielle 2.0?

She’d fit right in here…on the BRF threads for sure

Review: Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths”: I couldn’t bare the misery anymore

I adore her.

She is great-- Hope. she gets nominated!

I watched an advanced screening of this movie at the Middleburg film festival and found it utterly irredeemable. It lacked plot and real meaning, and because of it was almost impossible to watch. There was no part of this film that I enjoyed, nor did anyone in my party who watched the film with me. If you value movies that make you feel anything other than wretched, I would highly recommend not watching this film. The actor's performances were commendable in the sense that I truly found Pansy to be the most unlikable character I have ever encountered. I left the theater feeling terrible, and I truly believe this was the worst movie I have ever watched. If I was not at a film festival, I would have walked out of the theatre.

R7: Do you like Leigh's other films—particularly "Secrets & Lies"?

Looks 👍. Beats most of the woke nonsense that came out of the UK in recent years.

Mike Leigh's Hard Turds

"Career Girls" was made the right after "Secrets & Lies" and is excellent.

Lynda Steadman's performance in the flashbacks of Career Girls in Mike Leigh indulgence at its worst. As a wallflower with a disfiguring facial skin rash she is so mannered to be hilarious.

I'm curious to see it. Mike Leigh's grimmest films are his best.

Yeah, Americans have a hard time dealing with grim plots.

I tightened up watching the preview because I have a sister who is in many ways exactly like this character. Tough, funny in a really quick, incisive way, but also progressively “removed” in her outlook and behavior. It’s really hard to find things to say to her, and just has hard to say them the right way.

[quote]Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a mouthy malcontent DL would love.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste as anything DL should love.

It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and is readying for a December 6 platform release before going wide in theaters January 10.

I saw the trailer and I looked dreadful. They tried to get some jokes in but it all just fell flat.

If she pulls off a nomination for this I’ll be amazed.

I love Marianne, but if I wanted to spend 2 hours with an angry, uneducated, misanthrope, I'd visit my mother.

*angry, uneducated misanthrope

Movie of the year, for me. It's brutal and heartbreaking and MJB is unmatched.

Very much feels of this moment where politics and the pandemic fucked all of our heads up royally.

I adore Marianne. Was lucky enough to meet her at the National one evening and she was gracious enough to allow me to take a selfie. I wouldn't normally do such a thing but Secrets & Lies holds a special place in my heart. My schoolfriends and I still quote it at each other 25 years later.

Hoozah. MJB won Best Actress at the New York Film Critics Circle awards.

I love Marianne and Leigh's films are always fascinating character studies.

[Quote] the epics Mr. Turner and Peterloo

Which no one has ever heard of

[Quote] Yeah, Americans have a hard time dealing with grim plots.

Yes, that’s why it’s being released in the USA first, because “Americans have a hard time” with such films. 🙄

[quote]Which no one has ever heard of

No one has time for Mike Leigh when there's all those Marvel movies to keep track of, is that it?

I love Mike Leigh's movies. Happy Go Lucky is probably my favorite. I didn't really care for Naked even though it was his first big success. I will definitely watch this.

That "happy-go-lucky" Poppy can go fuck herself.

I’ll be watching as soon as it’s available.

I’m very happy for Marianne.

New York Times review

...an astonishment of insults, barbs and accusations that she wields as both weapon and shield. A small woman with a large, yowling, at times monstrous mouth, Pansy volubly unloads on other people — family, friends, strangers, caregivers — the way some boxers throw punches, strategically, wildly, jabbing and slugging before retreating to her corner.

R32 Sounds like a woman I was once married to.

I've never quite warmed up to Mike Leigh's movies, except for Topsy Turvy and Secrets & Lies, both of which I think are masterpieces.

I think about this moment in Secrets and Lies where social worker Lesley Manville fumbles through her purse and offers her a Rolo.

[quote] Marianne Jean-Baptiste as anything DL should love.

And she's a great singer.

..an astonishment of insults, barbs and accusations that she wields as both weapon and shield

I could have played that part. With the accent AND tears.

- Viola Davis.

Time magazine - It’s a strange sensation, to end up loving a movie that makes you feel physically uncomfortable for nearly its whole runtime.

Is Marianne Jean-Baptiste a descendant of John the Baptist?

Interview with MJB

I loathe Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s voice. Absolutely hate it.

Love him, esp his older movies!

Oh No Marianne snubbed for Golden Globe.

This looks good. Black Brits, white Brits, sexy Indian Brits. I just love Brits.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a woman at war with the world, and herself, every minute. She practically vibrates with belligerence: She can’t go to the grocery store without having a run-in with the cashier; her husband has given up trying to be kind and mostly avoids her; her grown son spends most of his time locked in his room, watching aviation videos—his only relief is to leave the house for long walks, the better to escape his mother’s angry force field. Why would you care about this woman’s story? For much of the film you may be yearning to get away from her. I was.