Movie Review Hard Truths

Hard Truths 

Directed by Mike Leigh

Written by Mike Leigh 

Starring Marianne Jean Baptiste, Michele Austin

Released September 2024 

Published December 2nd, 2024 

Hard Truths is a hard watch. The film centers on a performance by Marianne Jean Baptiste, who portrays Pansy, that is often deeply unpleasant. Pansy is a miserable woman whose undiagnosed depression is expressed via deep seated anger and resentment of everyone around her. And I do mean everyone. This includes her patient and devoted husband Curtley (David Webber), their deeply morose son, Moses (Tuwaine Barrett), and Pansy’s loving and open hearted sister, Chantelle (Michele Austin). 

But I said, everyone and I meant it. Thus, when Pansy leaves her home, which is a rarity, she inflicts her vitriol on store clerks, doctors, dentists, and anyone who comes across her path. The film is oppressive in presenting Pansy’s rage as a constantly boiling cauldron splashing molten anger as it begins to overflow everywhere. Pansy is so all-consuming that the movie switches gears to bring us into the lives of Chantelle and her two lovely young daughters, Kayla (Ari Nelson) and Aleisha (Sophia Brown) as a way of allowing the audience a moment to breathe.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 



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