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"Hard Truths" with Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I finally saw it last night (it's free on Kanopy now).

What a performance by Marianne, madly cunting at the whole world like Peggy Gravel in "Desperate Living." Then in the last third of the movie she rips your heart out.

There's a hilarious scene at the dinner table where she cunts about anything and everything for about two straight minutes ("that baby in the outfit wif pockets! Wot's a baby need pockets for? Is 'e carryin' a KNIFE?") while her sad-sack husband and son eat silently, staring into space.

It's a career-defining role and I can't believe she wasn't nominated for an Oscar — much less passed over for that gerbil-faced kid from the Pamela Adlon show and the hulking Hispanic trans person. Marianne was robbed.

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by Anonymousreply 3September 7, 2025 11:30 PM

Related.

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by Anonymousreply 1September 7, 2025 8:56 PM

r1, I'm sorry. I swear to Agnes Moorehead I did a search for "truths" and "hard truths" and came up empty.

by Anonymousreply 2September 7, 2025 11:23 PM

A brilliant movie. Nobody does it like Mike Leigh.

by Anonymousreply 3September 7, 2025 11:30 PM
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