"Acclaimed legendary British director Mike Leigh’s latest is a wonderful character study with fizzing dialogue and captivating performances that draw you in. Marianne Jean-Baptise is wonderful as the cantankerous Pansy, a broken character who manages to earn our compassion through her humanity. Ably supported by a great cast this is a wonderfully challenging, hugely engaging and fascinating film".
Housewife Pansy is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his life. Her sister Chantelle runs a thriving hair salon. A single mum, she enjoys life, and lives harmoniously with her daughters Kayla, who works in cosmetics, and Aleisha, a trainee lawyer.
