Secrets and Lies: The Criterion Collection

Summary

Born from a painstaking process of rehearsal and improvisation with a powerhouse ensemble cast, Secrets and Lies is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 26th April 2021 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Cast

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan

Director

Mike Leigh

Producer

Simon Channing Williams

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

2 hours 22 minutes

Release date

26/04/2021

Hash Tag

#SecretsAndLies

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Writer-director Mike Leigh (Naked) 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 (RoboCop's 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 (Pride & Prejudice's 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 and 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.

Secrets and Lies is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 26th April 2021 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
New conversation with Leigh and composer Gary Yershon
New interview with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Audio interview with Leigh from 1996 conducted by film critic Michel Ciment
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

Timothy Spall

Early Man, Finding Your Feet, Early Man, The Party, Denial, The Enfield Haunting, Love Punch, The Rise, Room On The Broom, Blandings: Series 1, Love Bite, Sofia, Comes A Bright Day, The Syndicate, Wake Wood, The Fattest Man In Britain, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Chicken Run, Topsy-Turvy, The Changeover, Stanley A Man Of Variety, Summer of Rockets, Mrs Lowry & Son, Dream Demon, Topsy-Turvy: The Criterion Collection, The Sheltering Sky, The Last Bus, Spencer, It Snows in Benidorm, Vanilla Sky, Murder Most Horrid: Series 1, The Sixth Commandment, Gothic

Phyllis Logan

Girlfriends, The Good Karma Hospital: Series 1, Downton Abbey: Series 4, The Last Bus, Guilt: Series 2, Downton Abbey: A New Era

Brenda Blethyn

Vera: Series 7, Ethel & Ernest, All Good Things, Vera: Series 6, Two Men in Town, Vera: Series 5, Vera: Series 9, Vera: Series 10, Vera: Series 12, Vera: Series 11

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Blindspot: Season 1, Broadchurch: Series 2, 28 Days, The Cell, In Fabric

Mike Leigh

High Hopes, Another Year, Topsy-Turvy: The Criterion Collection, Vera Drake

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Secrets and Lies: The Criterion Collection (1996)