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A brilliant performance
LOUIS BAYMAN admires Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on a black woman’s experience of depression that offers no easy answers
hard truths

 

IF you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths.

Echoing the title of his very first film in 1971, Bleak Moments, Hard Truths represents a variation on the veteran British director’s recurrent theme of the delusions that keep us a step away from despair.

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