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...Maurice (Timothy Spall) and Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) shared a challenging childhood and adolescence but have since hardly spoken to each other: he is married and busy with a prosperous photography business; she is coping as a single mother of a chain-smoking teen, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). Meanwhile, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the child Cynthia gave up for adoption and forgot, tracks down her mother. Revelation to Maurice and to Roxanne seems imminent. Drama ensues...
...child sex-ring case marched throughout the country Tuesday. Car workers marched to the Brussels Justice Palace as bus drivers, steel workers, railway employees firefighters and oil workers all spontaneously went out on strike. The strikes are in response a Belgian Supreme Court decision to remove investigating judge Jean-Marc Conerotte from the case of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux. The Court said Conerotte prejudiced himself by attending a charity fundraiser dinner for the families of missing children. Conerotte received national acclaim after his investigators rescued two imprisoned girls and found the bodies of four others, breaking a child porn...
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...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...
...film Secrets & Lies, is a vintage Mike Leigh moment--a whirl of comedy and soap opera, of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, with the immediacy of real life heightened into the craft of movie art. As Blethyn lets the waterworks flow, Leigh's camera holds on her and Jean-Baptiste for nearly eight purging minutes. Blethyn's heroic work won her the Best Actress prize this year at the Cannes Film Festival. And Secrets & Lies was named Best Film at Cannes. This week it opens the New York Film Festival and will have its premiere in other major cities over...