DVD
Secrets & lies
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Ron Cook, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lee Ross, Emma Amos, Hannah Davis.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (142 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
"Writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love. When Hortense, 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, a desperately 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 & Lies is a Palme d'Or-winning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath the surface of everyday lives."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope ; new conversation between Leigh and composer Gary Yershon ; new conversation between actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste and film critic Corrina Antrobus ; audio interview with Leigh, conducted by film critic Michel Ciment in 1996 ; trailer.