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2002-11-27

A lot of people had talked about it. With a lot I actually mean about one, two, three, four, five people. A few others as well, but only five had seen it and all of them thought it was great. So you understand that I just had to see it.

Secrets & Lies starts with an introduction to the characters. At first I thought it was nothing special, I had seen it before. Then the characters started to expand and I before I knew it half an hour had past. I sat still. This is good. Really good.

The story is thin, there is no action whatsoever and it is quite long and slow-paced. (Tommy, this isn’t your kind of movie. You’ll hate it.) The characters however continue to grow all the way, the fill up every frame and make it a joy to watch. You don’t know if you’re going to laugh or cry. Much of the actors performance is appearantly improvised, but my God, what improvisations. Better acting than all movies on this year’s Academy Awards put together. I eagely await the cinema release of Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing in January.