Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed, a place she will spend increasingly more time in across the film, when she suddenly awakes in fright. Is it a nightmare? Or simply the anxiety ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths. Photo: Simon Mein/Thin Man Films Pansy Deacon, the London woman played by Marianne Jean ...

Early in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. “It’s ...

The human psyche can contain irrational anger, leading to outbursts at strangers for minor offenses. Triggers for this rage can range from someone taking a parking spot before we’re ready to ...

What do we do with the sad ones, the mad ones, the ones who seem to have been born carrying a grudge against the world? Easy enough to step around them when they’re ranting at the supermarket ...

A knife?!” Hard Truths is, among its legion of virtues, hilarious whenever it repeatedly gives Pansy a stage on which to eloquently and unabashedly rage, and Jean-Baptiste has a knack for ...

Here, Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a London housewife, goes to sleep frowning and wakes up screaming — her angst is solar-powered. When her mellower sister Chantelle (Michele Austin ...

Our protagonist is housewife Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who lives in a clinically ordered, corner rowhouse with her husband Curtley and son Moses. Curtley works as a general home repairman ...

Set in London, the 97-minute film centers on Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a woman deeply unhappy with the world and takes it out on everyone around her, including her long-suffering husband ...

TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2025 /CNW/ - Within 24 hours of arriving at a vacation resort in the Dominican Republic during the Christmas holidays in December, 2023, all four members of the Gougeon family ...