48/43
Plot
Legendary director Mike Lee returns to the modern world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous exploration of family and the thorny bonds that bind us. Reuniting with Lee for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the incredible Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as Pansy, a woman wracked by fear and illness, prone to violent tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who comes her way. Meanwhile, her laid-back younger sister, played by Michelle Osteen (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments—but filled with the warmth shared by her salon clients and daughters. This great film from a remarkable playwright takes us into the depths of kinship, debt, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even though our entire lives are filled with pain and deprivation, we still find ways to love those we call family.
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