I'm going to see Hard Truths

[MissMarplesNiece]

The new Mike Leigh film. Has anyone watched this yet?

Just come back from seeing it! It's excellent but a hard watch

I saw a trailer for it at the cinema. I laughed during one of the scenes that was shown (I wasnt the only one laughing so its not that i have a particularly cruel sense of humour, at least I dont think so), but then I felt guilty for laughing because it was really quite sad.

I thought it was rubbish, like a parody of a Mike Leigh film. No depth at all, and I didn't find it all moving or funny. It's telling that most festivals didn't want it and apart from the performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the film has won very little this award season.

I've just seen it and I enjoyed it although I think it is one of the saddest films I've seen. I don't generally like Mike Leigh films and only went because a friend wanted to go but I'm really glad I've seen it.
I'm trying not to give away any spoilers here, but I found the depiction of a family who were unable to express their emotions and who all seemed trapped very moving and thought provoking.

I saw it yesterday and thought it was good. Very funny in places and great acting. It is rather bleak at the end but in a thought- provoking way. I could really feel for the characters.

I think MJP must have been drained by the character. I enjoyed it, I like the type of ending it had but you could hear in the cinema that a lot didn’t.
Pansy was right about pockets though!

Yes, what WOULD a baby put in there! Something I found thought provoking was Pansy turning situations around in her mind - she'd be horrible to someone she interacted with and then think - or at least say - that they had been rude to her. I wonder if people think like that in real life?

Yes, I do think people think like this in real life, and I'll admit that I can remember a few times when I have been guilty of thinking and turning and twisting things in my head until I have convinced myself that it wasn't me that was rude but the other person.

SPOILER

I think this is why I really liked the ending. Although there have been complaints and reviews that the film just stopped with no resolution, both Pansy and Curtley had show self awareness - we had watched them thinking about their actions, Pansy sat in the car after the parking argument for example - and therefore I think that they were capable of change and, in the circumstances, would have to change. There was hope at the end.
The more I think about this film, the more I like it.

Saw it finally this afternoon. I agree with the comments that it did not have the depth of some other Mike Leigh films, All or Nothing came to mind as one with more, for example.

I did smile at the pockets reference!