Mike Leigh on the Making of Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh on the making of his film, Secrets & Lies, during Human Conditions: The Films of Mike Leigh, moderated by FLC Assistant Programmer Dan Sullivan. Our retrospective continues through June 8! Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/series/human... The acclaimed winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Mike Leigh’s mid-’90s masterpiece cemented his status as the poet laureate of modern family life. The story concerns Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, awarded Best Actress at Cannes), a working-class white woman whose personal and interpersonal lives are transformed when she learns that a Black optometrist is the child she gave up for adoption 27 years prior. Created, like Leigh’s other films, after long months of intensely collaborative improvisation, Secrets & Lies is remarkable for its lived-in warmth and humor, and above all for its unflinching honesty in capturing the everyday evasions and deceptions that can define our lives. An NYFF34 selection. 2K Restoration. A Janus Films release. More info: http://filmlinc.org Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like on Facebook:   / filmlinc   Follow on Twitter:   / filmlinc   Follow on Instagram:   / filmlinc