FILM 1628: SECRETS & LIES
TRIVIA: To add a spontaneous effect
to the performances, Mike Leigh met with each actor individually and only told them
what their character would know at the beginning of the film. As filming
progressed the actors were hearing the secrets for the very first time. Brenda Blethyn, for
instance, didn't know that Marianne Jean-Baptiste was black.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
and Brenda Blethyn
never met before the scene in which they meet in the film.
Most of the script was improvised.
Writer/director Mike Leigh told each of the actors what his/her part in the
story was and they each developed their own characters.
Was chosen by Time Magazine as one
of the "Best of Film 1996" at position #6 in the in their year end
review issue dated December 23, 1996.
The film is included on Roger Ebert's
"Great Movies" list.
Included among the "1001
Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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