Following his historical epics Mr Turner and Peterloo, legendary British filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Secrets & Lies, the astonishing 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 easy-going younger sister, played by Michele Austin, is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy's as their clashing temperaments. This expansive film from a master dramatist explores the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through hurt and hardship, we can still love the ones that we call family.
