Lie With Me
Just finished watching "Lie With Me" released by Cinephobia Releasing.
Yes, this was the movie that caused me to have a migraine last week when I was watching it because I was translating the spoken French dialogue in English. While French is my native tongue in a manner of speaking - my Mother and I lived with my Grandparents Baneth for the first five years of my life because my parents were separated and French was spoken and I really didn't learn English until I was six after my parents had reconciled - the lingering after effects of my second stroke is that I get violently ill if I listen to and/or speak in any language other than English.
"Lie With Me" is based on the novel by Philippe Besson, which I have not read, is supposed to be an auto-biographical novelization of a romance he had in real life with a fellow male classmate in school during his senior year, and this screen adaptation is a near autobiographical movie, with Besson fictional counterpart being now called Stephane Belcourt - remember this is the English version of French so no anti-gay slurs are meant by the name. [It's kind of sad that I have to point that out because someone will take offense at how a name is spelled out and spoken in another.] language.
Now some people will be turned off by the constant merging of Belcourt's past and present as he returns to his home town to promote a short novel that he wrote, when he runs into a young man who bears a strong resemblance to the boy he loved all those years ago and the past and present collide as both the past and present seek answers and some form of resolution.
Again, this is a French movie, so prudes and the easily offended should not watch this movie. Though I will make this observation, it seems that director Oliver Peyon deliberately choose actors who bore a strong resemblance to the real life counter parts of the people they were portraying.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C...
Yes, this was the movie that caused me to have a migraine last week when I was watching it because I was translating the spoken French dialogue in English. While French is my native tongue in a manner of speaking - my Mother and I lived with my Grandparents Baneth for the first five years of my life because my parents were separated and French was spoken and I really didn't learn English until I was six after my parents had reconciled - the lingering after effects of my second stroke is that I get violently ill if I listen to and/or speak in any language other than English.
"Lie With Me" is based on the novel by Philippe Besson, which I have not read, is supposed to be an auto-biographical novelization of a romance he had in real life with a fellow male classmate in school during his senior year, and this screen adaptation is a near autobiographical movie, with Besson fictional counterpart being now called Stephane Belcourt - remember this is the English version of French so no anti-gay slurs are meant by the name. [It's kind of sad that I have to point that out because someone will take offense at how a name is spelled out and spoken in another.] language.
Now some people will be turned off by the constant merging of Belcourt's past and present as he returns to his home town to promote a short novel that he wrote, when he runs into a young man who bears a strong resemblance to the boy he loved all those years ago and the past and present collide as both the past and present seek answers and some form of resolution.
Again, this is a French movie, so prudes and the easily offended should not watch this movie. Though I will make this observation, it seems that director Oliver Peyon deliberately choose actors who bore a strong resemblance to the real life counter parts of the people they were portraying.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C...
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