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Mike Leigh's

Secrets and Lies

1996 Palme d'Or at Cannes

Mike Leigh (UK; 1996; 15)

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Sun 20 July // 19:30 / Cinema

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Concentrated in the fold of one family Leigh opens out the emotional experience of race roots and identity.  Leigh’s script led by an ensemble of his regular actors focuses on a dysfunctional family thrown into further turmoil by the appearance of Hortense, a Black optometrist put up for adoption at birth, who has decided to trace her birth mother.  Great performances and Leigh’s deft  direction of his own script make for a comedy drama of heightened humour and emotional intensity.