Secrets & Lies - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Adrianne Lenker and the realism helps heighten

and the realism helps heighten the tension as things begin to go very wrong

This wildly entertaining nightmare

Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar Japan

including the swinging title track

Decapitation and amputation abound

Secrets & Lies - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Adrianne Lenker and the realism helps heightenA Black British woman adopted at birth (Marianne Jean Baptiste) tracks down her biological mother, who turns out to be a working class white woman (Brenda Blethyn, in a Palme d'Orwinning performance) with secrets of her own. Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lieswinner of the Palme d'Or at Cannesis a deeply compassionate drama about family, identity, and the cathartic power of truth, built from Leigh's signature process of collaborative improvisation and