Secrets And Lies

05 Feb 1997 Director: Mike Leigh France, UK 1996 136 min Hortense, a successful Black optometrist in London, decides to search for her birth mother after her adoptive mother dies. She discovers that her mother, Cynthia, is a white working-class woman living with her troubled daughter Roxanne. The revelation of Hortense’s existence throws Cynthia’s already… Continue reading Secrets And Lies

A River Runs Through It

17 Nov 1993 Director: Robert Redford USA 1992 123 min The story traces the relationship between Norman and his younger brother, Paul, whose family is bound together by a love of nature and fly-fishing. Problems arise when the brothers’ futures diverge. Norman pursues an academic career and Paul becomes a journalist who drinks and gambles.… Continue reading A River Runs Through It