Lie With me
The sensual yearning of Philippe Besson’s award-winning novel Lie With Me (Arrête avec tes mensonges) alive in director Olivier Peyon’s achingly tender adaptation. When celebrated author Stéphane reluctantly returns to his rural French hometown to accept an award, he’s forced to confront skeletons left in the closet decades ago. He’s struck by something familiar in his ostensible tour guide, Lucas, played by Victor Belmondo (grandson of French acting legend Jean-Paul), something that stirs his memories of his first teenage love (and lust), Thomas.
With its bucolic European setting and parallel narratives set in the author’s youth as well as today, Peyon’s film combines the passion of Call Me By Your Name with a Proustian reflective wistfulness. Impressively, Lie With Me stands on its own, a miraculous feat of adaptation with an uncommon understanding of queer sex and desire in both the spring and autumn of life.
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The sensual yearning of Philippe Besson’s award-winning novel Lie With Me (Arrête avec tes mensonges) alive in director Olivier Peyon’s achingly tender adaptation. When celebrated author Stéphane reluctantly returns to his rural French hometown to accept an award, he’s forced to confront skeletons left in the closet decades ago. He’s struck by something familiar in his ostensible tour guide, Lucas, played by Victor Belmondo (grandson of French acting legend Jean-Paul), something that stirs his memories of his first teenage love (and lust), Thomas.
With its bucolic European setting and parallel narratives set in the author’s youth as well as today, Peyon’s film combines the passion of Call Me By Your Name with a Proustian reflective wistfulness. Impressively, Lie With Me stands on its own, a miraculous feat of adaptation with an uncommon understanding of queer sex and desire in both the spring and autumn of life.
