WED AUG 31, 2022 7:00 PM SECRETS & LIES $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | New Restoration, courtesy of Janus Films. ‘Mike Leigh: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event. This event is near being sold out, but more could be available as carts expire. Please check again in a few minutes.
ABOUT THE FILM: An expert observer of unembellished humanity, writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy with this exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships. When Hortense (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 (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award), a 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 & 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. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films