FRI JAN 3, 2025 7:30 PM HARD TRUTHS / SECRETS & LIES $19.00 (members-only) Ticket prices for paid events include a $2.00 online booking fee. Booking fees do not apply to free RSVP events. Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Mike Leigh and actors Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin Advance Screening! ‘Mike Leigh: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILMS: HARD TRUTHS, 2024, Dir. Mike Leigh, 97 Mins, Bleecker Street, UK/Spain Reunited with legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated SECRETS & LIES, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (ANOTHER YEAR), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments — brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. FORMAT: DCP SECRETS & LIES, 1996, Dir. Mike Leigh, 142 Mins, Janus Films, UK 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), 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