32/40
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. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, the film’s masterful dramatist’s grandiose film takes us to the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: how, even through painful and difficult lives, we find a way to love those we call family.
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