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Secrets & Lies
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- Comedy.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (142 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1996
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- An expert observer of unembellished humanity, writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy with this exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships. When Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's best actress award), a lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family. Born from a painstaking process of rehearsal and improvisation with a powerhouse ensemble cast, SECRETS and LIES is a Palme d'Or-winning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath everyday lives
- Participant:
- Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1996
- OCLC:
- 1293992290
- Publisher Number:
- 12814113 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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