Mike Leigh Reunites With Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Angry Sister in ‘Hard Truths’ Trailer

Secrets and Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman prone to raging tirades against her family, in the trailer for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths that dropped ahead of a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

“Why are you so angry? Why can’t you enjoy life,” Pansy’s sister, played by Michele Austin, asks at one point in the teaser trailer. “I don’t know!” Jean-Baptiste’s character shoots back.

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But Leigh’s latest film, a drama about family and the thorny ties that bind us, suggests with the trailer that a lifetime of hurt and hardship has Pansy wracked with fear and emotional afflictions and attempting a halting reconciliation with her long-suffering sister.

Hard Truths will have its world premiere at TIFF on Friday at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. Secrets & Lies, which premiered in Cannes in 1996, winning the Palme d’Or, featured Jean-Baptiste as a well-off Black professional who seeks out her biological mother, a poor white factory worker living in East London, played by Brenda Blethyn. Jean-Baptiste was Oscar-nominated for her performance, and it marked her international breakthrough.

Other Leigh regulars returning for Hard Truths include producer Georgina Lowe, cinematographer Dick Pope, costume designer Jacqueline Durran, production designer Suzie Davis, composer Gary Yershon and casting director Nina Gold.

Bleecker Street pre-bought Hard Truths and will release the film theatrically in the U.S. later this year. Studiocanal is releasing the movie in the U.K., while Cornerstone Films is handling international sales. Co-financed by Film4, Hard Truths is a Thin Man Films and The Mediapro Studio co-production, made in association with Creativity Media

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