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‘Hard Truths’ Filmmaker Mike Leigh on Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste For Their Character Study (Video Interview)
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‘Hard Truths’ Filmmaker Mike Leigh on Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste For Their Character Study (Video Interview)

For more than 50 years and over the course of 15 films, filmmaker Mike Leigh has become one of the most respected and praised British filmmakers with seven Oscar nominations – five for his screenplays, two for his direction – as well as 13 BAFTA nominations, winning two and receiving two special BAFTA honors. That’s…

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NYFF/ Hard Truths Review: Mike Leigh Returns to Form with Superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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NYFF/ Hard Truths Review: Mike Leigh Returns to Form with Superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste

In the opening scene of Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Palm winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character sings at her adopted mother’s funeral on a lush cemetery. She then played the mild-mannered and soft-spoken optometrist with a contagious smile who searches for her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn). When she now revisits Mike…

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