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Hard Truths (AD) (12A)

Parent & Baby Screening

A heartfelt portrait of family life, from prolific British filmmaker Mike Leigh.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle. She criticises her husband and their adult son so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and enumerates the world's countless flaws to anyone who will listen, especially her cheerful sister Chantal (Michele Austin), who, despite their clashing temperaments, might be the only person still capable of sympathising with her.

Hard Truths sees Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunited for the first time in nearly 30 years, since their much lauded collaboration on 1997’s Secrets & Lies. Michele Austin also stars alongside Jean-Baptiste in this compassionate, tragicomic study of the contemporary world, and of human strengths and weaknesses.

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*Excludes £1.50 booking fee

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Audio described

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