I am not sure that is so true.
Pansy is a real pip if ever there was one.
Here is a person for whom nothing is good enough.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in ‘Hard Truths’TIFF
Her videogame-obsessed son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) has clearly shut off the world to avoid his mother.
A visit to the supermarket ends in conflict with the clerk.
It is the same with all that ails her.
And god help the saleslady trying to help her pick out a new couch.
It goes on and on.
Cant stand em, she says.
Basically this is all played out as a chamber piece.
This is an actor whose eyes tell you all you better know.
Is Leigh interested in giving any sense of hope to these people?
you’ve got the option to decide.
He does offer a little, but it really is such a pittance that it doesnt register.
This is a bleak look at a bleak person with no way out of herself.
Jean-Baptiste carries the film on her shoulders and she is magnificent.
It is somehow appropriate that a company called Bleecker Street is distributing this film.
That is therealhard truth.
Producer is Georgina Lowe.
