Hard Truths Movie Review
Pansy Deacon is a depressed and anxious woman trapped in a loveless marriage and suffering deep scars from childhood trauma. She is played with absolute conviction by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Her husband Curtly (David Webber) is emotionally stilted and can barely mumble more than a few words at a time. Her son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) is also scarcely conscious and shuffles through his young life.
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Pansy is so relentlessly unpleasant to everyone she meets, if it was ...
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In this multi-award-winning tragi-comedy set in London, famed director Mike Leigh reunites with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for a compelling study of human strengths and weaknesses.
The story revolves around Pansy, a hypersensitive woman who constantly criticizes her husband Curtley and adult son Moses, leading to their silence rather than argument.
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She often picks fights with strangers and shares her grievances with her empathetic sister Chantal.
As Pansy’s ...
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Mike Leigh's latest film is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history.
The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, ...
