Directed by : Mike LEIGH
Country : FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM Length : 142 minutes
Palme d'Or , 1996
Award for Best Actress , 1996
After the death of her adoptive mother, Hortense, a young black 27 year-old woman, decides to find her real mother. She is surprised, when they finally met, to find that her mother, Cynthia, is white and has a 20 year-old daughter. At first Cynthia is distraught at seeing the daughter she had forgotten about a long time ago, and then proceeds to foster a deep relationship with her. Cynthia is then put to the task of making her family accept the fact that she has a black daughter...
Mike LEIGH
Mike LEIGH - Director
Dick POPE (B.S.C.) - Cinematography
Andrew DICKSON - Music
Jon GREGORY - Film Editor
Alison CHITTY - Set decorator
Mike LEIGH - Script / Dialogue
Timothy SPALL - Maurice
Brenda BLETHYN - Cynthia
Claire RUSHBROOK - Roxanna
Phyllis LOGAN - Monica
Marianne JEAN-BAPTISTE - Hortense
Lesley MANVILLE - L'assistante sociale
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