Screening times:
Saturday, March 15, 5:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 21, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, March 21, 8:45 PM
Mike Leigh | UK, Spain | 2024 | 97m
with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
Reunited with Leigh for the first time since the Palme d'Or-winning feature Secrets and Lies (1996), Oscar-nominated actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing 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 a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship and duty, encountering hardship and humour along the way.
"Leigh makes a welcome return to intimate character studies... Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who he directed in the Palme d’Or-winning Secrets & Lies, gives a truly astonishing performance as a woman who cannot articulate her abject misery." - Laura Venning, Empire Magazine
"The belly laughs here at watching Jean-Baptiste's character being absolutely no-filter with everyone eventually give way to something more profound as we empathise with the person whose flamethrower default is burning her more than it is anyone else." - Harry Guerin, RTÉ.ie
"Rudely hilarious, like a clown’s seltzer-bottle spritz to the face, to watch Pansy’s many public tantrums, in which she frequently gives voice to thoughts most people wouldn’t dare say out loud." - Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Winner: Best Lead Performance (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) - British Independent Film Awards 2024
Winner: Best Actress (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) - Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2024
Winner: Actress of the Year (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) - London Critics Circle Film Awards 2024
Winner: Best Original Screenplay (Mike Leigh); Winner: Top Ten Independent Films 2024 - National Board of Review, USA 2024
Winner: Best Original Screenplay (Mike Leigh); Winner: Best Actress (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) - International Cinephile Society Awards 2024
Ticket $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available.)
