Secrets and Lies (#1070)

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 doesnt expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the Cannes Film Festivals 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 & Lies is a Palme dOrwinning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath everyday lives.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration, approved by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

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

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Ashley Clark