by Velocity / Thinkfilm
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| Sales Rank: | 726 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $4.00 |
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| Director: | Clément Virgo |
| Release Date: | 2006-02-14 |
| Label: | Velocity / Thinkfilm |
| UPC: | 821575534154 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Velocity / Thinkfilm |
| ASIN: | B000DZ95MG |
| Category: | DVD |
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Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Product Description
Lie with me is the story of a girl who likes sex and a guy who also likes sex and all the empty emotions that flow around them.. Thats pretty much it. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: Lauren Lee Smith Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Ur Director: Clement Virgo
Amazon.com
Shot in sunny Toronto and set to a dreamy score, Lie With Me looks and sounds like an art film, but the end result isn't quite so lofty. The plot is thin and the dialogue superfluous, but no matter--Canada's Clément Virgo (Love Come Down) just wants to turn you on and he has enlisted two attractive, uninhibited young performers to assist in his aims. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith, The L Word) and David (Eric Balfour, Six Feet Under) meet at a party. He's with his girlfriend, but finds himself drawn to her. The feeling is mutual. She's alone, but quickly finds an unattached hipster with whom to have a tryst. David catches her in the act. Instead of turning away, he watches. They start seeing each other immediately afterwards. "I'm not hooked on danger, [I'm] hooked on sex," Leila claims, but she isn't exactly the most trustworthy narrator. She wants a purely physical relationship, while David wants something more. They return to their old lives, but the obsession refuses to die. Based on the novella by Virgo's partner, Tamara Berger, Lie With Me plays like a low-budget cross between Adrian Lyne's overrated 9 1/2 Weeks and Wayne Wang's underrated The Center of the World. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
They Can't Show Enough Skin to Make This One Appealing - Reviewed on 2008-09-25
1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.
Ugly people having sex, smothered in tattoos. No, its not a hardcore porn movie. It inhabits the middle distance between hardcore and soft core porn. It is the kind of movie that businessmen pay $4.00 to watch in the privacy of their room at the La Quinta while on a business trip. Erections sans cumshots.
Ask yourself why David (Eric Balfour, a greasy, unattractive dude) would leave the only attractive woman in the movie, Victoria (played by Polly Shannon) for someone as just this side of ugly, Leila (Lauren Lee Smith).
Like most faux art movies, sex moves the plot, rather than the plot incorporating the sex in a meaningful way. The "actors" mumble their lines which are worthless dialogue anyway and not worth hearing.
I would not only add a parental advisory for this film, but would also add the following: "This movie is for immature adults only. Viewer discretion advised and your self-esteem is at stake."
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Book Subjects
- Adult Situations
- Adult-Oriented Film
- Canada
- Color
- Drama
- English
- Erotic Drama
- Fathers and Daughters
- Feature
- Feature Film-drama
- Gritty
- Intimate
- Mature
- Movie
- Not For Children
- Playing the Field
- Profanity
- Psychological Drama
- Romance
- Romantic Betrayal