Hard Truths (12A)

Following his epic historical films ‘Mr. Turner’ and ‘Peterloo’, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a tough but compassionate intimate study of family life.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way.

Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister Chantal (Michele Austin) is a single mother, her life brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. But things between the two of them come to a head over the course of one Mother’s Day week