Tale
Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often humorous exploration of family and the unbreakable bonds that bind us together. Reuniting with Leigh for the first time since her multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as Pansy, a fear-driven woman tormented by suffering and prone to angry tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who comes into her way. Meanwhile, her quiet younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting personalities—full of shared warmth for both her clients and her daughter’s salon. This sweeping film from the master playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring human mystery: that even in the midst of a life of pain and hardship, we find ways to love those we call family.