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28 de feb. de 1997 · Secrets & Lies: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook. Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black eye doctor, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a lower-class white woman...
Año: 1996. Título original: Secrets and Lies. Sinopsis: Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven negra que vive en Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre biológica, la cual la dio en adopción nada más nacer.
El film cuenta la historia de las relaciones entre un grupo de diferentes personajes, unidos por lazos familiares. Sentimientos, pasiones, crisis personales, crisis de pareja, madurez e identidad, son los ingredientes de una película que, en definitiva, nos habla de la vida y la necesidad de amor.
Following the passing of her adoptive mother, London based optometrist Hortense Cumberbatch believes it is a good time to find out the identity of her birth mother, something that is now the right of adopted adult children in Britain which was not the case when she was given up for adoption in 1968.
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 everyday lives.
