Directed by:
Mike LeighScreenplay:
Mike LeighCinematography:
Dick PopeComposer:
Andrew DicksonCast:
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook (more)Plots(1)
Writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love. 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 desperately 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 the surface of everyday lives. (Criterion)
(more)Soundtracks
Meantime / High Hopes / Naked / Secrets & Lies
Label: Caldera Records
Year: 2019
Country: Germany
Format: CD
Length: 56:20
| 1. | MEANTIME: End Credits | Andrew Dickson | 03:20 |
| 2. | HIGH HOPES: Suite | Andrew Dickson | 11:15 |
| 3. | NAKED: Opening Titles | Andrew Dickson | 03:56 |
| 4. | Tribal Initiation | Andrew Dickson | 00:30 |
| 5. | On A Cold, Grim Night | Andrew Dickson | 01:49 |
| 6. | The Mysteries Of His Trade | Andrew Dickson | 01:22 |
| 7. | The Party's Over | Andrew Dickson | 02:40 |
| 8. | Jeremy Is Angry | Andrew Dickson | 00:44 |
| 9. | Friendly Visit | Andrew Dickson | 00:44 |
| 10. | Brian In The Window | Andrew Dickson | 01:31 |
| 11. | Sneaking Out | Andrew Dickson | 00:56 |
| 12. | Taking A Bath | Andrew Dickson | 00:39 |
| 13. | Blank It All Out | Andrew Dickson | 02:38 |
| 14. | Johnny Returns Home | Andrew Dickson | 00:43 |
| 15. | Bad Quartet | Andrew Dickson | 01:24 |
| 16. | Sandra | Andrew Dickson | 00:45 |
| 17. | More Heartbreak | Andrew Dickson | 00:47 |
| 18. | Escape To Nowhere | Andrew Dickson | 02:08 |
| 19. | End Credits | Andrew Dickson | 01:36 |
| 20. | SECRETS & LIES: Opening Credits | Andrew Dickson | 00:31 |
| 21. | Burial / Wedding Photos | Andrew Dickson | 01:52 |
| 22. | Office Of Population Censuses And Surveys | Andrew Dickson | 01:46 |
| 23. | Maurice And Monica | Andrew Dickson | 01:22 |
| 24. | I'll Be Thinking Of You | Andrew Dickson | 01:42 |
| 25. | A Night Out | Andrew Dickson | 01:12 |
| 26. | End Credits | Andrew Dickson | 02:21 |
| 27. | BONUS TRACK: Interview With Mike Leigh | 06:07 |