‘The role of the national galleries in Sweden and in other countries is twofold: first of all to tell a story about the history of art history – and that means focusing on foreign art, if you like – ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film Secrets & Lies, which led to Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed, a place she will spend increasingly more time in across the film, when she suddenly awakes in fright. Is it a nightmare? Or simply the anxiety ...

For Britain’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste, her 30-years-later reunion with the legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh as the star of “Hard Truths,” in theaters now, has been a remarkable triumph.

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths. Photo: Simon Mein/Thin Man Films Pansy Deacon, the London woman played by Marianne Jean ...

Early in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. “It’s ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed with anger.

A knife?!” Hard Truths is, among its legion of virtues, hilarious whenever it repeatedly gives Pansy a stage on which to eloquently and unabashedly rage, and Jean-Baptiste has a knack for ...

What do we do with the sad ones, the mad ones, the ones who seem to have been born carrying a grudge against the world? Easy enough to step around them when they’re ranting at the supermarket ...