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Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous exploration of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. The multiple Oscar nominee reunites with Leigh for the first time since “Secrets and Lies.” The stunning Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-ridden, suffering woman prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who stands in her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing sister, played by Michele Austin (next year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting temperaments, and who is filled with the warmth of community from her salon clients and daughters. This masterful dramatist’s large-scale film takes us into the intensity of kinship, duty, and that most enduring of human mysteries: how to find a way to love those we call family, even through a lifetime of pain and hardship.