Secrets & Lies
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
Director: Mike Leigh Run Time: 142 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 1996
Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook
My First Time kicks off with Mike Leigh’s 1996 Palme d’Or winner Secrets & Lies, a film that shot up Shay’s watchlist during Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s press tour for 2024’s Hard Truths (a perfect movie). Jean-Baptiste praised Leigh’s meticulous improvisational rehearsal processes, a defining feature of his oeuvre.
Join Shay as she watches their first collaboration… for the first time!
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She’s shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a working-class white woman.
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