‘Hard Truths’ review: Mike Leigh explores deep-seated anguish through darkly funny realism – Go Health Pro

‘Hard Truths’ review: Mike Leigh explores deep-seated anguish through darkly funny realism – Go Health Pro

Several times throughout Hard Truths, an unassuming English suburb becomes the site of a simmering domestic civil war, when the middle-aged Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is awoken from her nap and goes on a wordy, hilariously nasty rant about her neighbors. Her demanding husband Curtley (David Webber) is never surprised, and quietly accepts his wife’s latest … Read more

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