Secrets & Lies
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 & 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.
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
New cover by Eric Skillman
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
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Timothy Spall
- Maurice
- Phyllis Logan
- Monica
- Brenda Blethyn
- Cynthia
- Claire Rushbrook
- Roxanne
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Hortense
- Elizabeth Berrington
- Jane
- Michele Austin
- Dionne
- Lee Ross
- Paul
- Lesley Manville
- Social worker
- Ron Cook
- Stuart
- Emma Amos
- Girl with scar
- Hannah Davis
- First bride
Credits
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Written by
- Mike Leigh
- Produced by
- Simon Channing-Williams
- Director of photography
- Dick Pope
- Editing by
- Jon Gregory
- Music by
- Andrew Dickson
- Production designer
- Alison Chitty
- Sound recordist
- George Richards
- Costume designer
- Maria Price
- Makeup
- Christine Blundell
- Production supervisor
- Georgina Lowe
Trailer for Secrets & Lies
