Secrets and Lies

The winner of the top prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, this devastating melodrama from acclaimed British director Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Topsy-Turvy) will be presented in a new 4K digital restoration courtesy of Janus Films. With both of her adoptive parents now dead, a Black optometrist (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) decides to make contact with her birth mother (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes), only to find out that she is white. Thus begins the gradual disintegration of a family: as the secrets that they have kept for decades slowly start to unravel, they realize that they have little common ground, less to say to each other, and no possibility of reconciliation. Features some of the most gripping, powerful performances ever captured on film. 142 minutes.