Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon’s ongoing discussion of the acclaimed director’s films continued at The Garden Cinema with a screening and Q&A of his Palme d’Or winning film Secrets & Lies (1996).

Secrets & Lies is an exploration of the deceptions that shape our relationships. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, leading her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a lonely white factory worker.