40/44
Tale
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 amazing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a fear-stricken, disease-ridden woman prone to violent tirades against her husband, her son, and anyone who looks her way. . Meanwhile, her easy-going younger sister, played by Michelle Osteen (Another Year), is a single mother whose life is as different from Pansy’s as their conflicting temperaments—full of shared warmth from her salon clients and daughters. This large-scale film by an outstanding playwright takes us into the depths of kinship, debt and the most enduring human mystery: even though our entire life is full of pain and deprivation, we still find ways to love those we call family.
