Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

  • Director: Mike Leigh
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 28, 1997
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Secretos y mentiras
  • "Secrets & Lies" is a feature film released by Warner Home Vídeo, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Brenda Blethyn , Marian Jean and others. The film was released in France on May 24, 1996.
    The film tells the story of the illegitimate daughter Hoston looking for her biological mother from a young age, finding her biological mother through the orphanage and becoming friends with her biological mother   .

    Details

    • Release date February 28, 1997
    • Filming locations Junction of Whitehouse Way and Hampden Way, Southgate, London, England, UK
    • Production companies Channel Four Films, CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $13,417,292

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $60,813

    Gross worldwide

    $13,417,292

    Movie reviews

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    • By Ruthe 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      secrets and lies

      The film won the Best Picture Award at the 49th Cannes Film Festival. Watched Mike Lee's fourth film ("Meanwhile", "Nothing", "Life is Sweet", "Secrets and Lies"). Looking at it this way, I already like the master's story style very much. If I rank it in my heart, I would like to have nothing, secrets and lies, and life is sweet. Compatible with the master director, are the actors in these films, with their elegant and restrained British demeanor, plain and indifferent life emotions,...

    • By Carmine 2022-03-24 09:02:44

      truest comedy

      I didn't ask you to give birth to me, and
      I don't want to conceive you , so
      you should think twice about taking off your underwear!
      In the 15th minute, when the photographer came home, his wife was using a vacuum cleaner and then made a fuss and lost her temper unreasonably. . disgusting woman. . .
      After 30 minutes of basically understanding the tone, I basically kept laughing all the time in the
      film, the harder I cry, the harder I laugh. . The expressions and...

    • By Trace 2022-03-23 09:02:35

      "Secrets & Lies": Happiness and Misfortune in the Crotch [The 49th Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or]

      Secrets & Lies (1996)

      The film won the Palme d'Or at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996.

      The film tells the story of a pair of siblings and two families. There is a pair of siblings, the younger brother is a photographer and his wife lives very well, while the older sister is a factory worker and his daughter lives an ordinary life. The elder sister does not have a harmonious relationship with her daughter, and she does not get along well with her brother's wife. Only the...

    • By Emilie 2022-01-05 08:02:19

      An ode to the suffering of people.

      Mike Leigh, have your tears been flickering during the filming of the film? This moving ode, it slowly flows into my heart, like a trickle in the desert, giving me a long-lost warmth .
      I really want to say something to you, I really want to know what you have gone through, I really want to touch your face, I really want to use my heart to gently wipe your wet tears.
      You are a poet, expressing people in distress with compassion, expressing their sadness, expressing their loneliness,...

    • By Annamae 2022-01-05 08:02:19

      "Secrets and Lies" pull notes

      "Secrets and Lies" is a movie directed by British director Mike Lee in 1996. The film won the 49th Cannes Palme d'Or and the Best Actress Award.

      It is worth mentioning that the film has no script. The director just called each actor over and told them the characters’ experiences and emotions. The rest of the lines were improvised by the actors. And the secrets and lies of the film are...

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    • By Wayne 2023-05-19 23:24:59

      A tearjerker, maybe too much too obvious, narrative is also not loose enough, not my favorite Leigh, but some scenes are so good that it's inconceivable anyone else could've done it besides Mike...

    • By Lois 2023-05-11 07:09:20

      The final party was handled so well that I was still embarrassed for the female assistant when I watched it, but when she cried and said she wanted a father like Moris, it didn't feel superfluous at all. The dialogue is wonderful, especially the outburst of Moris at the end and the dialogue between the two sisters at the end. This is...

    • By Alessandro 2023-03-30 13:39:15

      Good strong life flavor Mike Lee's fixed style. It's pretty good...

    • By Garnett 2023-03-15 20:19:08

      Well written, calm and objective compassion for the little people reminiscent of...

    • By Elmer 2023-03-12 14:21:16

      The story of dog blood was wrapped up by Mike Lee especially warmly. But this film just infected me, but didn't touch me. The emotions piled up slowly and then concentratedly erupted and finally returned to plainness. It was to put trust in the most important position in the family. For a bystander, witnessing A family quarrel was embarrassing and touching, so when Morris's assistant finally said that sentence full of comedy, he still felt that the point of the film was too...

    Movie plot

    Hortons (Marian Jean) is a black optician living in London. Her mother had just passed away, and she knew that she was her mother's adopted daughter. At the welfare agency, she learned that her biological mother was an unmarried white woman named Cynthia ( Brenda Blethyn ) . Cynthia lives in a simple house with her daughter Roxanne. Roxanne is a street cleaner. Cynthia's brother Morris is a successful photojournalist, and he lives in a...
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    Evaluation action

    "Secrets & Lies" allows the low-level creatures to show a rich layer, they are sometimes young
    Childish, simple and cute, sometimes strong and respectable. They have a real passion for life. Such a sentence I wish there was a line from a father like you that would make all the audience burst into tears. This is because the director faces up to the difficulties in life and finds a cordial saying from the bottom of his heart that reflects...
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    Movie quotes

    • [repeated line]

      Maurice: Lovely!

    • Monica Purley: Since when was Hoovering a spectator sport?

    • Monica Purley: I'm having milk. Not in a wine glass. Give me a highball. You don't put milk in a wine glass.