【auteur style • double bill】
★ Nominated for five Academy Awards in 1997, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay
★ 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film
When her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a 27 years old black woman, decides to look for her real mother. She is overwhelmed when she discovers that her biological mother, Cynthia, is white and that she has a 20 years old daughter, Roxanne, who she lives with. Despite the panic Cynthia feels when she hears from this long-forgotten child and despite everything that separates them, a genuine bond of trust and love gradually grows between them.
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
 | About the Director Mike Leigh is an English writer-director and former actor with film, theatre, and television career spanning nearly 60 years. He has received numerous accolades, including prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Venice International Film Festival, three BAFTA Awards, and nominations for seven Academy Awards. | |