Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.... (Full plot summary below)
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Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.
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| USA TodayMike ClarkBlethyn is so astonishing that you forget you're seeing a performance. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannLeigh goes right to the core of his character's lives and mines the place where we're weakest, most alone and sometimes the cruelest. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt moves us on a human level, it keeps us guessing during scenes as unpredictable as life, and it shows us how ordinary people have a chance of somehow coping with their problems, which are rather ordinary, too. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaLeigh's script and direction pushes all the right emotional buttons without getting overly melodramatic. |
| Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)Judith EgertonThe characters are so painfully real it's more like watching a documentary than a made-up story. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIf film means anything to you, if emotional truth is a quality you care about, this is an event that ought not be missed. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyA magnificent melodrama that draws both tears and laughter from the everyday give-and-take of seemingly ordinary souls. |
| TNT RoughCutJason PuskarA masterful mix of wit and humor, sympathy and sadness. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliRepresents the director at his best -- unsentimental yet powerful, funny and poignant, and, in the end, undeniably satisfying. |
| San Francisco ExaminerJeffrey M. AndersonPerhaps Mike Leigh's most popular film, but still packs a gut-punch. |
