Well, he kept that quiet... After a six-year absence from our screens, Mike Leigh has a new film coming out this year – and he’s just revealed the title and shared a first still to give a flavour of what to expect.
Thus-far under wraps, ‘Hard Truths’ will reunite Leigh with his ‘Secrets & Lies’ star Marianne Jean-Baptiste in a ‘tough but compassionate intimate study of family life’ set in contemporary London.
Michele Austin, another ‘Secrets & Lies’ alumni, is co-starring.
It’s Leigh’s first film since ‘Peterloo’ in 2018 and 2014’s ‘Mr Turner’ prior to that, and sees the filmmaker back mining a similar vein of modern-day urban drama as ‘Another Year’, ‘Secrets & Lies’ and Naked’.
There’s word on an official release date yet, but it will be in cinemas in the UK and US in 2024.
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