Out On Film – Winner: Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Out On Film – Winner: Jury Award for Best Narrative Film
OUTShine Film Festival: Winner: Best Narrative Feature
This powerful and emotional romance/drama by director Olivier Peyon centers on a middle-aged man who, when visiting his childhood town, is flooded with memories of first gay love. Celebrated novelist Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquédec) travels to his hometown after over 30 years. There, he meets Lucas (Victor Belmondo, grandson of Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of Thomas, his secret teenage love. Lucas, inquisitive for information on his now deceased father, sets off turbulent emotions in the writer as his mind is flooded with memories of Thomas and their summer of love. The film contrasts the wintry present with the sun-splashed summer past when the shy, bespectacled Stéphane (Julien De Saint Jean) meets and falls for the rough and tumble Thomas (Rémy Gillet.) LIE WITH ME is erotic, tender, romantic and heartbreaking.
Cast: Guillaume de Tonquédec (Stéphane Belcourt), Victor Belmondo (Lucas), Doriane Chastanet (Nadine), Julien de Saint Jean (Thomas), Jérémy Gillet (17-year-old Stéphane Belcourt), Guilaine Londez (Gaëlle)
Producers: Anthony Doncque, Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo (TS Productions)
Screenwriter: Olivier Peyon, Vincent Poymiro, Cécilia Rouaud, Arthur Cahn (Based on a Novel by: Philippe Besson)
Cinematographer: Martin Rit
Editor: Damien Maestraggi
Music: Thylacine & Bravinsan
SKU: CR008
UPC: 784300362067
Original Title: Arrête avec tes mensonges
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: Dolby 5.1
The American French Film Festival (Los Angeles) North American Premiere
BFI Flare Film Festival (London)
Istanbul Film Festival
Miami OUTShine Film Festival - Winner: Audience Award, Best Feature Film
Lovers Film Festival (Turin, Italy) Winner: Young Lovers – Matthew Shepard Award
Image/Out (Rochester, NY) - Winner: Best Narrative Feature Film
Peyton’s character-focused direction and editing that perfectly weaves the past with the present, and you have one of the year’s best films. Lie with Me is a stunning exploration of love found, lost and found again through blood memory, prose and a need for shared healing and individual closure.
Peyton’s character-focused direction and editing that perfectly weaves the past with the present, and you have one of the year’s best films. Lie with Me is a stunning exploration of love found, lost and found again through blood memory, prose and a need for shared healing and individual closure.
