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In anticipation of the return of beloved British director Mike Leigh to cinemas with the 31st January release of his highly-praised drama HARD TRUTHS, Riverside studios will be celebrating a select few films from his filmography, and some of the brilliant actresses they showcase, across our classic Sunday and Silver Screen slots across the month! Curator Andy Willis will be providing his incisive introductions to all shows.
MIKE LEIGH DOUBLE BILL TICKET OFFER: buy a ticket to the 1 Feb 13:00 show of Mike Leigh's award-winning classic SECRETS AND LIES and the later 15:50 show of his new highly-praised drama HARD TRUTHS in the same order and receive 33% off the total!
SECRETS & LIES
The Academy-award nominated Mike Leigh classic, which also stars HARD TRUTHS lead actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin.
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.