Mike Leigh’s first film for six years is a close study of mental ill health and lack of communication in an extended London family.
It reunites him with the wonderful Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who won an Oscar nomination for their 1996 collaboration, Secrets and Lies. Here, she plays Pansy, a middle-aged woman whose fear of just about everything in the outside world – dirt, germs, birds, people – manifests as a remorseless, disgusted hostility.
