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Secrets
And Lies location: Cynthia's
terraced house, darlin': Quilter Street, Bethnal Green
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SECRETS
AND LIES filming locations
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CREDITS
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You
gotta laugh, ain't you, sweetheart? Else you'd cry.
The upbeat resolution of this family
drama seems a deliberate counterweight to the bleak
pessimism of the scabrous Naked, but it proved
a popular Cannes award winner for director Mike
Leigh, with Brenda
Blethyn taking honours as Best Actress,
After the death of her adoptive mother, optometrist
Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne
Jean-Baptiste) becomes the unwitting catalyst for
family revelations when she traces her birth-mother.
The rather contrived twist is that upwardly-mobile Hortense
is black, her working class mum is white.
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Secrets
And Lies location: Timothy Spall's photographic studio:
The Green, Winchmore Hill
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Hortense gets a copy of her birth certificate from the
Office of Population Censuses
and Surveys, St Catherines House, 10 Kingsway
at Aldwych and, later, meets up with a somewhat flummoxed
Cynthia outside nearby Holborn
Underground Station.
The modest terraced house of mother Cynthia Purley (Blethyn)
is in the East End, 76 Quilter
Street, Bethnal Green, E2, between Bethnal
Green and Hackney.
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Secrets
And Lies location: Timothy Spall's home: Whitehouse Way, Southgate
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The neighbourhood of Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy
Spall) is way up in north London.
His place of business really is a photographers
studio, Studio on the Green,
34 The Green, Winchmore Hill. His house is
nearby, 87 Whitehouse Way
at Hampden Way, Southgate.
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LOCATIONS FOR SECRETS AND LIES
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