Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often considered to be quite funny in a bleak sort of way. Hard Truths, for example, is generating laughs for the quality of insults cast by the main character, Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who is in a compulsive and perpetual rage at life, spewing abuse at family members as well as any unfortunate neighbor or service person or total stranger who happens to cross her path.
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