Tale
Legendary director Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and its thorny bonds. Joining Leigh for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated “Secrets and Lies,” the stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fearful and tormented woman prone to furious tirades against her husband, her son, and anyone in sight. Her kind. Meanwhile, her outgoing younger sister, played by Michelle Austen (One More Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting temperaments, filled with shared warmth from the salon’s clients and daughters. This sprawling film by the great playwright takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and the most enduring human mystery: even through suffering and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.