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
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