We are expected to believe the totally unbuyable plot point in which Brenda's character cannot remember being with a black man and giving birth to a black baby. This is absolutely ridiculous and should have been rewritten. What was the brilliant Mike Leigh thinking?Nick

Secrets and Lies is about important themes in life: love, family, children, adoption... The movie is about a young woman who wants to know her birth-mother. But her birth-mother ignores she have another daughter until she enters her life. And when they meet, everything changes. But it creates more tensions between the mother and her second daughter but also wit the rest of the family. The thing I liked best in this film is the humorous side which is present all the film long. The actors and actresses are really good, even more when we underline the fact that they didn't even have a script because the film director, Mike Leigh, always works without a script. It is always improvisation. The films got nominated for a lot of awards, actors too, and it was well-deserved, the actors were truly Oscar-worthy. We also had the chance with my class to meet one of the lead actors, Timothy Spall, who plays Maurice, Cynthia's brother in the film and it was a truly incredible experience. He was really kind and nice with us and he answered all our questions clearly, he did his best to answer our questions. But what I dislike about the movie is that, sometimes there are scenes which are too long, slow-moving scenes and it is really boring. But I think is the only weakness point of the movie. Otherwise, it is a good movie, for the characters, the plot and the moral.

Hello everybody, I'm going to speak about Secrets and Lies movie. Well i saw this movie last week and I can say this is not the movie of the century. Firstly, I found this movie very long because there is no really action,this is just a series of secrets.The principal character, Cynthia is all the time crying and this is very boring.I can't say this movie is not humorous because there are some scenes which are very funny but that is not enough.In short, this is a "girl's movie" and if you don't like that sort of movie you must not see it because you are going to sleep.

When I decided to watch Secrets and lies directed by Mike Leigh, I didn't know what to expect because I had never seen a Mike Leigh's movie before Secrets and Lies. It was a really good surprise! I really like the plot of the story, it is not a blockbuster and I understand why some people don't like this movie but Secrets and Lies shows our life and it is interesting. I met Timothy Spall, one of the actors, he played Maurice and he told me that Mike Leigh doesn't write any scripts so he had to improvise. I can tell you actors are really talented.The movie balances with some really sad moments and some really funny ones.But Secrets and Lies is not perfect! The character of Cynthia is really irritating mostly because of her voice who is really high- pitched. And sometimes the movie is really slow-moving and the movie is a little bit too long. I think that if you like super heroes movies or blockbusters, don't watch the movie but if you like realistic and poetic movies go!