Secrets and Lies (Criterion Collection)

Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Deciding to search for her birth mother more than 20 years after she was put up for adoption, a Black optometrist finds that path leading the one place she could not have expected: a white mother, with a white family. Now becoming slowly reconnected to her biological family, she’s determined to rebuild a relationship that’s only become more complex in the years apart. Directed by Mike Leigh. Includes restored audio and video, new conversation with the director and composer Gary Yershon, new interview with Jean-Baptiste and audio interview with the direction and critic Michel Ciment. 1996/color/144 min/R/widescreen.