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Secrets & Lies: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook. Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
- (48K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1997-02-28
Plot. Hortense Cumberbatch, a black optometrist in London, embarks on a journey to trace her family history following the death of her adoptive mother. Despite warnings about potential challenges, she discovers her birth mother is Cynthia Purley, a white woman working in a cardboard box factory in East London.
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipient (s)1997Simon Channing WilliamsSimon Channing WilliamsMike LeighBrenda BlethynMar 30, 2021 · Leigh’s midcareer masterpiece, Secrets & Lies (1996), is one of the finest examples of his ability to construct riveting drama from ordinary life. It follows a successful young Black optometrist in North London named Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who, following the death of her adoptive mother, decides to seek out her birth ...
Mar 30, 2021 · I spoke to Mike Leigh about keeping secrets from your actors, why Blethyn looks so surprised in the film’s most famous scene, and his post-Oscars encounter with Harvey Weinstein. Our ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Mike Leigh, photographed by Jeremy O. Harris. MONDAY 5:45 PM OCTOBER 7, 2024 NEW YORK CITY. When he met up with Jeremy O. Harris this week to talk about his new film Hard Truths, the director Mike Leigh was mostly pleased to be spending time in New York for the movie’s premiere. Los Angeles, however, is a different story.
Dec 21, 2011 · Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, and the only British director to have won top prize at both Cannes (Secrets and Lies) and Venice (Vera Drake), Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures.
Leigh's most notable works include the black comedy-drama Naked (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA- and Palme d'Or-winning drama Secrets & Lies (1996), the Golden Lion-winning working-class drama Vera Drake (2004), and the Palme d'Or-nominated biopic Mr. Turner (2014).
