Tale
Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny bonds that bind us together. Reuniting with Leigh for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman consumed by fear, tormented by afflictions and prone to furious tirades against her husband, her son and anyone who looks at her. 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 conflicting temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and her daughters. This expansive film from a master playwright takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lives of suffering and hardship, we always find ways to love those we call family.
