Secrets & Lies (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
Truth will out.
Price: | $36 |
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $3.95 (10% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 3-5 business days
Brand New
|
Also released as:
Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 30, 2021
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brenda Blethyn & Marianne Jean-Baptiste | |
Performer: | Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall & Phyllis Logan | |
Directed by | Mike Leigh | |
Edited by | Jon Gregory | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Leigh | |
Composition by | Andrew Dickson | |
Produced by | Simon Channing Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1996 -
Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn
Cannes 1996 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
95%
TOMATOMETER
Leigh's aesthetically pared-down, thickly improvisational stylings allow his cast to revel in the rich complexities of their familial confrontations...
Premiere
...Inspired performances....A crowd-pleaser... -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Moment after moment, scene after scene, SECRETS & LIES unfolds with the fascination of eavesdropping...
Chicago Sun-Times
LIES builds to a climactic family gathering with profound cathartic powers.
USA Today
...SECRETS & LIES is a powerful, complex and at times highly amusing drama...
Total Film
...A finely observed, deeply felt work...
Variety
Product Description:
Mike Leigh's superlative drama, at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad, examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a young black optometrist, has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow, she embarks on a search for her birth mother, who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family, except Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan), knows that the teenage Cynthia gave up a child for adoption without ever seeing the baby. Hortense contacts Cynthia, and after a heart-wrenching reconciliation, they become best friends. Maurice and Monica, childless but financially secure, are very fond of Roxanne and host a family barbeque to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. Cynthia convinces Hortense to attend the party and meet the family--as a mate from the factory--but during the cake and champagne celebration, the family's secrets and lies emerge in a cathartic, emotional sweep. Leigh's trademark for developing his films' characters and storylines from an intense series of improvisations with the actors themselves reaches its summit with Hortense and Cynthia's reunion in a coffee shop, resulting in another deeply moving portrait of a family at a personal crossroads.
Keywords:
Similar Products
Formats:
Genres:
Product Groupings:
Theme:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,359
- UPC: 715515256810
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item