Secrets and Lies - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) The Velvet Underground He was a self‑taught filmmaker

He was a self‑taught filmmaker and self‑proclaimed outsider

the multitude of ways in which we embrace plants in spiritual ceremony

and a baby brother in need of care

survived – and thrived – in a society that largely catered to and memorialised men

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Secrets and Lies - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) The Velvet Underground He was a self‑taught filmmakerAn expert observer of unembellished humanity, writer director Mike Leigh reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy with this exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships. When Hortense (Marianne Jean Baptiste), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesnt expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn, winner of the Cannes Film Festivals best