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Critic Roger Ebert

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The way the two women play this scene is fascinating. They're acting in real time, creating a new relationship on the spot, Cynthia feeling the first inner stirrings of this daughter...when her layabout Roxanne is a street sweeper.

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Critic David Cavanagh

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The result is hilarious, as touching a film as any Leigh has made.

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Kasper Løvborg

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Superb. The performances are great, Blethyn and Spall being the cream of the crop. Leigh's preproduction method ensures maximum believability. Only nitpick would be an ending that seemed maybe a little too clean for real life, especially for ...

3 years ago

Michael Thomsen

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En af de helt gode Mike Leigh film. Vildt god.

2 years ago

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Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her biological mother after her adoptive mother's death. She discovers her mother, Cynthia, is a white woman living in a working-class neighborhood. Despite their initial hesitation, the two form a friendship, but their relationship becomes complicated when Hortense attends a family gathering and reveals her true identity to Cynthia's daughter Roxanne.

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