Secrets & Lies
Leigh cemented his status as the poet laureate of modern family life with this story of Cynthia, a working-class white woman whose personal life is transformed when she discovers that a Black optometrist is the child she gave up for adoption 27 years prior.
Introduction by Marianne Jean-Baptiste on December 7
The acclaimed winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Mike Leigh’s mid-’90s masterpiece cemented his status as the poet laureate of modern family life. The story concerns Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, awarded Best Actress at Cannes), a working-class white woman whose personal and interpersonal lives are transformed when she learns that a Black optometrist is the child she gave up for adoption 27 years prior. Created, like Leigh’s other films, after long months of intensely collaborative improvisation, Secrets & Lies is remarkable for its lived-in warmth and humor, and above all for its unflinching honesty in capturing the everyday evasions and deceptions that can define our lives. An NYFF34 selection. A Janus Films release.
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