Secrets and Lies
- đ¤ Speaker: Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam University) đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Saturday 30 January 2016, 19:00 - 22:00
- đ Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's Street, Cambridge.
Abstract
Introduced and with discussion led by Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam University)
Director: Mike Leigh. Starring: Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. UK 1996 . 142 mins.
Leigh’s emotionally rich social observation documents the subtleties of the relationships in a dysfunctional family as its members’ secrets are revealed. After her adoptive parents die, an upwardly mobile, young black optometrist looks for her birth mother and discovers her to be working class and white.
Series This talk is part of the Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies series.
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Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam University) 
Saturday 30 January 2016, 19:00-22:00