EPISODE · May 13, 2020 · 52 MIN
Secrets & Lies (1996 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)
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The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features the Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies. Written and directed by Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan and Claire Rushbrook, Secrets & Lies debuted at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and went on to be nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/secrets-and-lies-1996), Desson Thomson in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/secretsandlieshowe.htm), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/10/18/secrets-and-lies/).Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring our pick for the year’s most notable documentary, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills.
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The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features the Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies. Written and directed by Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan and Claire Rushbrook, Secrets and Lies debuted at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and went on to be nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture.
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