Scenario
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. The multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies reunites Leigh for the first time since the film. The stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, grief-stricken woman prone to furious tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who crosses her path. Meanwhile, her quiet sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting temperaments, and filled with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters. This powerful film from the master of drama guides us through the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human secrets: that even through painful and difficult lives, we find a way to love those we call family.