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Legendary film director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and the difficult bonds that bind us together. Seeing Leigh for the first time in Secrets and Lies after several Oscar nominations, the amazing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, troubled woman prone to raging tirades against husband, son and all appearances. in his way. Meanwhile, her laid-back younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting personalities – full of communal warmth from both her salon clients and daughters. This sweeping film by a master actor takes us to the intensities of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: that even in the midst of life’s hurts and hardships, we still find ways to love those we call family.
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