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...Cynthia A. Miller, associate director of the Harvard Square Business Association, called the new pub "an excellent addition to Harvard Square...
...women, who have just met, sit side by side in a drab London cafe near a tube station. The younger woman, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), has told the older, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), that she is her daughter, given up for adoption 28 years ago. Cynthia curdles in disbelief, for she is white, Hortense black. "I don't mean nothin' by it, darlin'," Cynthia protests in her tiny voice, "but I ain't never been with a black man in my life." She stares into the void, and then a chill comes over her stricken face--you can almost...
...subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography The World According to Mike Leigh (HarperCollins). But Secrets & Lies could be his first movie to break through to a wide audience. It is easy to imagine dropping into a mall this fall and hearing America sob along with Cynthia...
What viewers will discover is a long (2 hrs. 16 min.), absorbing and ultimately sunny comedy-drama that treats all its characters scrupulously and generously. Cynthia, a factory worker, has another daughter, balky Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), "with a face like a slapped arse," and a younger brother, Maurice (Timothy Spall), whom she raised but to whom she has not spoken in two years. "Cynthia's really very capable," notes Blethyn, "although not the brightest." So when Hortense shows up, it is a shock and an opportunity. Secrets will be revealed, and lies made truth, at Roxanne's 21st-birthday party...
Secrets & Lies is rich in humor, pained or frolicking. Blethyn's Cynthia is an especially voluptuous creation, with her carelessly dyed hair and mincing steps, her metallic, baby-doll voice that calls everyone darlin' or sweetie, her habit of puddling into tears as her life spins out of control...