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Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh / GB, FR, 1996 / 142 min.

Mike Leigh’s heartwarming, moving story of a young Afro-Caribbean woman finding her white biological mother has been re-released after a wonderful 4K restoration. About the trials and tribulations of ordinary people in Britain’s class society.

poster Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, GB/FR 1996)
Cynthia, a middle-aged woman manages to get by on little with her somewhat vulnerable mental health, aided by her curt daughter Roxanne, a streetsweeper and her good-natured brother Maurice, a photographer.

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This movie is suitable for all agesThis movie contains foul language

Director

Mike Leigh

Production year

1996

Country

GB, FR

Original title

Secrets and Lies

Length

142 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NLD

Format

DCP

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still Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, GB/FR 1996)
still Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, GB/FR 1996)
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