23/20
Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s return to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us together. The film stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. This expansive film from a master playwright draws us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lives of pain and hardship, we always find ways to love those we call family.