- Format: NTSC
- Studio: Paradox
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000DWMZLW
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#17,221 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #57 in DVD > Art House & International > Canadian Cinema
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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
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A Film By Clement Virgo the director of Love Come Down, Rude, The Planet of Junior Brown
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing,
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This review is from: Lie With Me (DVD)
This movie was the recipe for an indie flick. It was pretty realistic (not necessarily normative), lots of nudity, good music, cool camera angles, actors you haven't seen much of or seen at all.Told from a female's point of view, I would highly recommend this for any woman who is tired of the male point of view. Here you get a sexually free woman who DOESN'T get all emotional over a guy....until it's clear he feels the same way. Eric Balfour is extremely fit and the director goes to great lengths to show off his assets. The scenes are at times uncomfortable-in a good way. The chemistry between Laila and David permeates through the screen and you really feel like the two are meeting for the first time, ect. The setting is summer in Toronto and at first I figured it was somewhere in the states...who would have thought there could be some really great scenes like the ones shown in this film. Once again, this is true to the indie nature of films, so for anyone looking for an academy award nomination-this is the wrong film for you. Not to say the two didn't act well but it definitely isn't your mainstream sort of plotline.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
There is no way this movie is Laying down with Me,
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This review is from: Lie With Me (DVD)
If you can get past the bone rack of a woman and Mr. Shaved Chest Hair, who seriously looks like Jimmy Hill of BBC Match of The Day fame (think Mandrake the magician), then you'll probrably enjoy this. This movie is trying to be more profound that it really is. Face facts, this is not a good porn film and not a good love story because it tries too much to be both. Basically, any movie with voice-over narration you know is in trouble because it means the story needs explanation that pictures and the actors' words cannot convey. Take away the narration and you maybe would have a half-decent fillum as then it would be left more to your own imagination as to why the woman is basically messed up."Lie with Me" is the story of a woman, who likes sex, and a man who also likes sex and all the empty emotions that flow around them... that's pretty much it. I couldn't even say that the plot goes downwards since it doesn't go anywhere at all. There is about one thing happening in this film and its sex; there is no intrigue, or none that's worth being intrigued by anyway, except for "will this ever end!" Very long moments could have been cut off the movie and, in the same way, some moments could have benefited from being longer. The main characters are empty, underdeveloped and we can't feel anything for them because they're too busy having sex and that, to me is okay, but not that interesting. As for the secondary characters, they're not even developed at all, there are many of them and they could just as well have not been there; again, not enough of the good or interesting stuff and too much of the boring empty stuff. At least it's not just about the women being naked all the time. In this, the men get equal attention, and that's good. The director tries to pulls us away from those distractions by giving us some beautiful scenery; such as the bed with white sheets, white pillow cases and white drapes. Come on! Where did they get that--Metaphors R Us? Then, of course, her own parents are in the midst of a separation. Oh, well, that explains everything. At least I get to see the sights of Toronto which is a wonderful city. "Lie with Me" is unrated of course and if it had it would have been rated NC-17 due to the sex segments. Another reason I can see why critics would voice out "Oooh and Aaah's" is with the male full frontal. Give me a break...rent a porno and save yourself the bother. This was surely one lousy Antonioni film but at least it was better than "9 Song"....Gosh!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blu-ray sounds terrific,
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This review is from: Lie With Me (DVD)
How about having this movie on blue-ray? It is better to see the full high definition version of this movie because we have high definition televisions. I hope a blue-ray version comes out as soon as possible.
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