DVD & Blu-ray: Mike Leigh's SECRETS & LIES (1996) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Mike Leigh’s quietly devastating, cathartic exploration of the fault lines beneath one family’s ordinary life

Writer-director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love.

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 desperately 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 the surface of everyday lives.

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Director: Mike Leigh

Starring: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 142 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: March 30, 2021

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DVD - Criterion Collection

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DVD

Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: None
Blu-ray: None

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DVD: Dolby Digital 2.0
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New conversation with Leigh and composer Gary Yershon
New interview with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Audio interview with Leigh from 1996 conducted by film critic Michel Ciment
Trailer
NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, supervised by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack