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Breaking Baz: Marianne Jean-Baptiste And Mike Leigh Reunite 28 Years After ‘Secrets & Lies’ With ‘Hard Truths’: Her Character Pansy’s Petals Reveal A Complex Personality—Toronto Film Festival
Mike Leigh And Marianne Jean-Baptiste Reunite For Hard Truths
That’s a perfect summation of Pansy, a fastidious woman, who keeps the North London house she shares with her plumber husband Curtley (David Webber) and Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) as their unmotivated son, spotlessly clean. I have seen her in my imperious royal Nigerian aunties, and in quite a few of the wannabe posh white women I used to deliver groceries to — riding one of those heavy tradesman’s bikes — in the more favorable parts of Richmond upon Thames. I spoke to Leigh separately and he says that “at one level, that was absolutely deliberate and intentional to make a film which deals with all the things that life is about,” but with a storyline where it doesn’t “feel that one has to kind of wheel out these tropes and cliches because these are people.
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