BAFTA nominated.
Director Mike Leigh (Mr Turner) is back with a fierce, compassionate, and darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
Reunited with Leigh for the first time since their multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way – without even she understanding why she’s like this.
Meanwhile, her easy-going younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike.
This expansive film from master dramatist Leigh takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
