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For the Love of God, Give This Woman an Oscar Nomination
No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths.
To her husband Curtley (David Webber) and son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett), Pansy’s akin to a monster in the house, an oppressive force to be avoided in the day or endured during dinner as she delivers rants toward their downturned heads. The film with which Hard Truths is most in conversation isn’t Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste’s last onscreen collaboration with Leigh, but Happy-Go-Lucky, the filmmaker’s 2008 comedy starring Sally Hawkins as Poppy Cross, a schoolteacher with an irrepressibly chipper personality. In the same way that Poppy’s unfaltering cheerfulness in the face of animosity and loss verges on the pathological, Pansy’s capacity to react to any scenario with rage or disgust makes her a sort of negative counterpart, a spiritual sibling in reverse.
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