Lie With Me Reviews

• Lots of hot sex but leaves you with an empty feeling... Beautiful DVD transfer

  
  By A29VKODW4R5U7W on 2006-05-28
  This was fun to watch yet at the same time rather disappointing (maybe depressing would be a better description). Fun if you go into it expecting sex, pretty faces and writhing bodies. But disappointing because there is little else besides. Depressing because the main characters appear so selfish, self-absorbed and are not in fact very likeable. Its main theme is about two emotionally immature individuals, learning rather late in life, the difference between lust and love. It's based on a short story by Tamara Faith Berger who also happens to be director Clement Virgo's wife. To its credit it tackles the lust vs love angle reasonably well.
  
  For our protagonist Leila, life is one sexual encounter after another, free of emotional attachment, free of commitment, free of love. It opens with a naked Leila (the lovely Lauren Lee Smith) alone on the couch, masturbating while watching a porn video. There is no major dialogue until at least 10 minutes into the film and even then it is pretty banal if not trite, reflecting in a way the shallowness of these individuals. Director Virgo notes that he was trying to make a visual film as opposed to a talkie. And visually, it is beautifully shot. Leila goes to a party, meets David (Eric Balfour), with whom she feels an instant and mutual attraction. However he is with his girlfriend, Victoria (Polly Shannon). So she snares another lucky male whom she proceeds to bl__ and fu__ in the parking lot, in full view of David and his girlfriend, who naturally do the same thing, both couples more interested in the opposite pair than in their own partners. David of course is enthralled with Leila and hooks up with her. They have sex. Then they have more sex. And that's all they have. They don't really have a relationship. They don't communicate. They just copulate. Like rutting animals. Throughout the film, sex is depicted as mechanical, selfish and purely physical and although arousing, it is emotionally empty. The main impression I was left with was one of emptiness, hollowness and how sad these people were, physically connecting yet mentally and emotionally all alone. So much so that when David's ailing father whom he's been dotingly caring for dies, Leila cannot empathise, much less give solace. And neither is David of much help when Leila struggles with her parents' own breakup.
  
  Luckless girlfriend Victoria (Polly Shannon) is, for me anyway, the most sympathetic character here. Of the three she is the only one with any insight into their relationship. She is also given some of the more memorable lines in the movie. During her confrontation with Leila, she warns him against David, "He's got intimacy issues. He needs a mommy," and more cruelly but to the point, "You can suck a guy's dick all you want. It doesn't mean he's ever gonna love you." She may be cast as the "other" woman but you can't help sympathising with her and thinking that she's better off rid of him. Virgo's need to have a "happy ending" where the characters come together after realising their love for each other is simply not convincing. It's hard to believe that these self-absorbed, narcissistic personalities could suddenly develop the insight to relate to someone, other than on a purely sensual level. The odd result is that, apart from the sex scenes, the movie when viewed as a whole, has a pretty depressing feel to it. Still, quibbles about the film aside, the sex scenes are not in the least bit disappointing. In fact, they are hot. Very much so. They are a lot more erotically arousing than in the bulk of porn material shot today which is so clinically anatomical as to no longer be erotic.
  
  Although the DVD is unrated, it would most likely merit an NC-17. The sex scenes are as close to hardcore as you can get without it being X-rated. The missing elements are the money-shots and scenes of actual penetration. Otherwise everything else is there, right down to Leila playfully handling David's little thingie.
  
  Lauren Lee Smith is gorgeous to look at and a very good actress. It took guts to do what she did here and I hope it pays off for her in the future. She should be in more films if only she could make time in between shooting "The L Word." In the commentary, director Virgo and Smith discuss how they first met when he directed her in her first lesbian scene in "The L Word."
  
  The film has been beautifully transferred to DVD in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio (enhanced for widescreen TV). The film as we learn in the commentary was shot on Super 16mm so there is a slight graininess throughout as would be expected from this medium. Otherwise it looks gorgeous. Colors are vibrantly rich, black levels are accurately set, the golden summer palette that Virgo chooses for the film comes through handsomely. Sound comes in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby 2.0 Stereo. Dialogue is recorded at a very low level and is at times barely audible while the pounding music from the nightclub scenes are overwhelmingly loud. Rather like a porn video. I was constantly reaching for the remote to raise and lower the volume. There is an accompanying trailer, a photo gallery and of course the commentary by director Clement Virgo and Lauren Lee Smith who breaks into infectious laughter whenever she's asked to comment on her sex scenes. There is however no behind the scenes footage as advertised by Amazon. In the end, it may not count as a truly thought-provoking or even very credible film but it is arousingly enjoyable nonetheless. From the other reviews here, I take it most viewers will be seeing it for the sex. So, as far as the star ratings go: Five stars for the sizzling hot sex and for Lauren Lee Smith, three and a half for the movie itself.
  
  

• It felt like a mediocre book I once read, but it was ultimately worth watching

  
  By A3THF5F2ZLWL6L on 2006-07-06
  * SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals key elements of the plot *
  
  I liked it. But it didn't resonate with me like the first five minutes promised it would. When the movie began, I felt Leila, the anti-heroine, promising me, "You will relate to me."
  
  At first I did. The blankness in her eyes as she went out to get what she both needed and hated I had felt myself too many times. When Leila and David were playing their cat-and-mouse game, the "I'll show you mine if you show me yours," they both seemed six years old: emotionally, they both are. Things began to get uneasy for me as the viewer.
  
  The next seventy percent or so of the movie was filled with more sex than you can shake an, er, stick at, and nothing about that bothered me (especially Eric Balfour's totally nude body). When the relationship between Leila and David began to unravel, it became apparent to me that both of them likely were diagnosable borderlines, a personality disorder, and from that point, my hopes for a successful resolution to the movie were nil. Would they live happily ever after? Would they continue their cycle of alternating emotional abuse? How would the movie end?
  
  Ultimately, the ending DIDN'T satisfy, as I was afraid it wouldn't, but then, wasn't the whole movie about NOT being satisfied?
  
  Director Clément Virgo's use of harsh lighting, fast panning, and extreme closeups is very effective in this film. I would consider watching some of his other work, but I'm not sure whether I'd recommend this one on its intellectual merits. On its more visceral merits, however, it fits the bill almost as well as Larry Clark's Ken Park.
  
  

• Clement Virgo's Lie With Me is self-indulgent porn masquerading as an 'art' film

  
  By ABXBWSPM6YHAI on 2007-06-22
  I've learnt to spot the danger signs of an impending bad movie. One of them is when the director is also the screenwriter and producer -- in short, there's no one there to put the brakes on when the film starts to get too self-absorbed. Such is the case with this Canadian indie film that seems to have gone straight to video.
  
  
  
  Based on Tamara Berger's novel of the same name (published by the appropriately named Gutter Press), we meet Leila (Lauren Lee Smith), a young woman at a party. She's more than a little tipsy, and looks to be on the scrawny side, dressed clearly with the message that she's there to get laid -- oops, I mean have a good time. One man there is pretty bold about eyeing her, and the pair end up in the bathroom, where he helps her to sober up a little with a drink of water. It almost turns into sex, but his girlfriend calls for him outside and he leaves. He, we find out, is named David (Eric Balfour).
  
  
  
  She leaves the party, taking with her Shy Guy (Michael Facciolo), and proceeds to have sex with him outside, up against a chain-link fence. Sitting in his car, watching the pair, is none other than David, along with his girlfriend. David and Leila watch each other getting laid, mimicing each others actions, as it were. At this point, I had a pretty good idea of what this film was going to be about, but as I have this thing about finishing the book or film I start, I didn't turn it off right away.
  
  
  
  Eventually, Leila and David meet up again, this time in a public playground, and in a daring moment, she exposes herself to him, making her own interest pretty well known. They move onto his apartment for sex, and the sexual compulsion between the two of them gets going. And in fact that's what most of this film is about -- we're either watching Leila and David going at it like deranged rabbits, or she's letting us know her thoughts and experiences in a voice over that supposed to be titillating and erotic, but sounds more like a bad memoir.
  
  
  
  The relationship is pretty predictable -- lust, jealousy phase, playing house together phase, she tries to get it past sex, he withdraws and treats her like trash, they break up, and so on and so forth. Yawn. We've seen this before. While I have to say that the sex at least looks real and honest, the rest of the film isn't that interesting. David, in particular, strikes me as the sort of young man that is fashionable these days -- unshaven, grungy and without any visible means of support. He does take care of an elderly, ailing father, so I guess that's something in his favour. But who in their right mind goes about in dirty jeans without underwear? I had a strong urge to go dip him in a vat of lye.
  
  
  
  Leila's not much better. She's perpetually rumpled in skimpy clothing that looks to be ready to fall off at anytime. It's a cheap and sleazy look, and if she's looking for true love or respect from men, it's not a way to really inspire it either. Her personal life isn't that much better -- her parents are going through a divorce, her job is a dead-end job, she seems to spend her free time on the couch watching porn, or partying it up with weed and alcohol. She's not someone I would really care to know in reality either.
  
  
  
  In short, this is a couple made for each other. Neither one of them are very responsible, and frankly, he treats her like a piece of meat. I suppose this is what makes this a modern, young adult relationship, sex without strings or emotion. And while the sex does get interesting, I've seen far far better in x-rated film, the only thing this lacks is what is known as the money shot in the trade.
  
  
  
  Indeed, Virgo tries to make this as arty as possible, with lots of soft lighting, on location shots in Toronto, use of colour and texture, and I guess that works. But there isn't any sort of plot in this except for the so-called romance between the two leads, and their sexual shenanigans. Oh, there's an attempt or two with the illness of one parent, and the impeding divorce, but the central relationship is so tawdry, the viewer is left with the attitude of so what? by the end.
  
  
  
  I don't demand syrupy romance, as long as there is some sort of passion there, but these two are so out of touch with themselves, how can they possibly make it work with each beyond the rubbing together of two body parts? That was the other big complaint with this one -- no one hits a climax that fast, and here it's the slam-bam-thankee-ma'am sort of sex. I kept thinking that she must have had insides of old leather to put up with that.
  
  
  
  This is not for children of any age, and I would suspect that most adults would find it a bit on the disturbing side. There is quite a bit of sex in this, with male and female frontal nudity, sex in public, public exposure, sex in public, in cars, with lots of foul language and every form of straight sex that can be performed. There's plenty of drug and alcohol abuse as well. But they do try with a bit of condom use -- after all, this is the age of safe sex, I suppose.
  
  
  
  No subtitles, some lackluster trailers for other films, and a voice-over commentary from the director. Nothing really special to watch either.
  
  
  
  This is certainly a D-list film. Those who prefer their film to have sex and be honest about it might find a few minutes worth watching, but this 100-minute clunker has nothing else going for it. Those who are looking for a love story will be turned off by the callous brutality and attitudes. It's not a likeable film at all, and I urge you to spend your time with something, anything, else.
  
  
  
  Not recommended.
  
  

• Utterly Unsatisfying

  
  By AYW3H5NJ56EYW on 2007-07-30
  What can I say? I'm sure I bought this for the same reason everyone else did, and boy what a let-down.
  
  Not to be ignorant or apathetic, I will focus my review on the film as a whole, not just the much talked about "graphic scenes of real sex" *cough cough*.
  
  Allow me first to point out all the good things, then all the bad:
  
  GOOD: The female lead is gorgeous.
  
  That's it.
  
  I guess the score has its charm too, but only cos it's always set to shots of her attractive face, so I'm gonna lump that all in as one bullet point.
  
  NOT SO GOOD: Where do I start? Although the girl is very attractive, the scenes of her having sex are not in the least bit exciting, so she might as well not be.
  
  The male lead is UTTERLY miscast, as a romantic lead, as an erotic lead, this guy totally misses the mark on ALL counts. And did I say romantic? Come to think of it, did I even say erotic?? Sorry guys but this film is a big fat neither. The much hyped "real" sex scenes are nothing short of completely pathetic, with not a single sexual encounter between the two "stars" (of which there are only two or three in the whole film) lasting more than a minute - literally, a 60 second minute. And these aren't artfully composed edited highlights, these are beginning-to-end realtime scenes. Think I'm kidding?
  
  I can understand the first time they're together and there's all this sexual tension and electricity and lust (although as a viewer I just had to assume this, I certainly didn't feel any of it coming from the two actors) and the guy just can't contain himself, but this and every subsequent time they're together he finishes in less than a minute.
  
  Which leads to another thing; throughout the film the girl narrates a contrived monologue sprinkled liberally with new-age promiscuous pleasure-seeking slang, this girl obviously thinks highly of herself sexually, yet the whole point of the film is that she becomes consumed by physically being with a man who cannot last more than 60 seconds in the sack. Even within the shallow parameters set by the film itself, this film fails to convince; and on any real level beyond that, it completely falls flat on its face. At one point he tells her he thinks about her all day and all night etc. etc. and I was left thinking "Whu?". There's just no passion between these two whatsoever, not as people, and not as bodies in a bedroom either. The simple and usually obvious dialogue is left to convince us of something entirely lacking in any other place we might look for it.
  
  At one point after being with the guy the girl tells us, "I always thought a man loved with his c_ck", as if she now knows real love and a man who can love her with something other than his c_ck, after what? A one night stand with a guy whose only interest was to have sex with you??? How does that work?
  
  Well, quite simply, it doesn't. Neither does the rest of this film. Not for a second.
  
  If you're only interested in the real sex scenes, I can open a raincloud on your parade and tell you that the films entire sex scenes tally less than a few minutes, and are utterly uninteresting anyway. If you're interested in this film in a more holistic way, I can tell you that you're barking up an even wronger tree.
  
  If this review is all over the place it is only cos the film itself is an equal mess.
  
  STAY AWAY!
  
  

• Sexy and good

  
  By A1RSMS15NQMNND on 2006-04-27
  Lauren Lee Smith is great in this movie. Yes, she is very sexy although a little anorexic. The sex in this movis is explict and hot. When I ordered this movie (unrated edition) I expected a hot movie, what I did not expect was a movie that also had some profound messages.
  
  Ms Smith's character was frantic and needy, and sex was a way for her to get (love, approval, etc) immediate gratification on an emotional level. Her sexual responses are greedy and lustful. When she falls in love, she runs away from the feelings. The process she goes through is painful, but neccessary for her. The viewer is drawn in with her and becomes involved whether or not they want to be.
  
  Her love interest took care of his elderly father. They had an excellent relationship. He would bath him and cook for him, and was his caregiver. The movie showed in graphic detail what being a caregiver means. When he passes, he breaks down and takes the viewer on a journey that is rare in films.
  
  In short, if you like graphic sex and this movie has it, the sexual scenes are graphic but not vulger or sleezy. The story line is excellent and profound and I suspect that most women could watch this movie and identify with the main character. Good movie folks and it is a shame that only the sexual aspect is focused on.
  
  
  
  
• There is no way this movie is Laying down with Me
  By A3C6CZC2JP67VK on 2006-09-14
  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!
  
  
  
• Interesting Movie
  By A34D06JL7LC6MU on 2006-07-08
  "Lie With Me" is a sexually charged love story that somehow got away from the MPAA with an R rating. I think the filmmakers must be in the MPAA, because this movie's got some graphic scenes. We're talking full frontal male & female nudity, with sex that looks very unsimulated. You don't see full penetration, but...Well, you'll have to see it. This movie is adapted from a book and I hope the book had more depth than this, because I feel something must have been lost in the transition from book-to-screen. The movie is about Leila (Lauren Lee Smith), a girl a lot of people would call a "slut." Leila likes to have sex and she likes to have it a lot. She doesn't seem to understand love or a relationship, but she understands sex. Could this be attributed to a bad homelife? It could be, but the filmmakers don't really show her with a bad homelife. Her parents are getting divorced and her sister is about to get married, despite having had sex with her ex just a couple nights before the marriage. It's kind of bad, but not this bad. Anyway, Leila ends up at a party where she hastily drags a guy outside and begins performing oral sex on him. Meanwhile, a guy she met a few minutes ago named David (Eric Balfour, 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre') is sitting in a truck watching her with his girlfriend. As the girlfriend begins copying Leila and as both Leila and David have sex with their respective partners; They look at each other and something is there. They may not be sure what, but it's there. The next day, David goes looking for Leila and he finds her. She begins to masturbate on a playground for him, which freaks him out a bit, but he returns to her and they both have sex that I swear isn't simulated. There's almost no way it could be. Anyway, for some reason; We have to find out that David is caring for his invalid father. But is this really important to the plot? I mean it's a bit heartwrenching, but not very important. This movie could've poignant, but that's where it misses. The performances are good enough and the movie is entertaining; It's a vast improvement over another sexually charged movie called "9 Songs" (in which the sex wasn't simulated and was slightly more graphic than this). Balfour and Smith make a cute couple; The sex scenes are great. But, overall, it misses a bit.
  
  GRADE: B-
  
  
  
• Eric Balfour Is Gorgeous!!...He Oooozes Sex!!
  By A1ST1XBL6EQTBV on 2006-10-07
  Fans of actor / musician Eric Balfour, who has played in
  a number of character roles, most famously as Claire Fischer's
  troubled boyfriend in the landmark HBO series "Six Feet Under",
  will love this film because you get to see this sexy hottie
  in all of his god-given finery! (WOOF!!)
  I mean, the plot is kind of paper thin, but who cares!!
  I would've bought it for the realistic sex scenes alone!
  Which I'm not sure if they were acting in them because...
  well, buy it and you'll see for yourself!
  Eric shows everything!...frontal, rear and even an erection
  in at least 8 different hot scenes!
  This dude is FINE!!
  That scene where he's salsa dancing with the girl
  in the complete buff!---OMG!!
  The acting does get better towards the end when Eric's
  character's father dies and he and the female lead's sexual
  relationship begins to disintergrate into something unexpected.
  Overall though, I liked this movie and didn't feel
  short-changed at all! Eric Balfour cut through my usual
  cool mature veneer and got right to my inner lustful teenager!
  
  
• VERY EROTIC AND SENSUAL
  By A28AUX68Q8T3TQ on 2006-03-31
  One of the most erotic films i have ever seen bar none. Very Hot and attractive characters in a sexual tryst. was just scanning the dvd and i could immediately say the scenes were so erotic i wouldnt know what to do if the sound were on. A great buy. In the likes of 9 1/2 weeks etc. Worth watching and even owning the dvd
  
  
• Oh my
  By A38X9XX2ZRR0ON on 2006-11-01
  There is alot of penis in this movie, wow, the other reviews are all correct, more skin than the playboy channel, even late night showtime adult movies. Everything except actual penetration.
  
  As far as the rest of the movie this is far from standard hollywood movie direction, and it is film purposefull in this alternative style. For lots it is a let down, as the story line is very simple. Minimal dialog. If the direct was serious about this style of directing, it was a noble attempt with the subject matter. Otherwise this film is just soft porno.
  
  Interesting movie, to each their own money.
  
  
• Sexually charged movie!
  By A1POFVVXUZR3IQ on 2007-05-10
  The two leads in this movie do a good job of portraying raw lust, and sexual tension. There is not much dialogue, mostly just the narration by the female lead, Leila [played by the lovely & sexy Lauren Lee Smith]& lots & lots of steamy, erotic sex. The storyline itself is nothing new, basically about two people, a sexual nymphet Leila and a sexually aggressive guy, David who both have different ideas about the direction their 'relationship' should lead. Watching it was better than watching a porn movie in that at least the sex doesn't just seem purely mechanical, and there is really good chemistry between the two leads. If a comparison is to be made with a more well-known movie, I would say this was close to Looking for Mr Goodbar, in which Diane Keaton plays a sexually obsessed woman [kind of what Leila is like in this movie] except this movie lacks the darker undertones of Goodbar. Final verdict: erotic & watchable.
  
  
• Yet another little-seen arty sex drama, courtesy of the DVD revolution
  By A3GRN6J64F2C3X on 2007-03-23
  "Lie With Me" in a nutshell: Sexy young woman knows she likes sex a lot but doesn't know what she wants in the long term. Studly young man knows he likes the sexy young woman but doesn't know what he wants to do with her in the long term. Throw in lots of sex and lots of voiceover musings by the young woman about how her stated views don't always parallel her actual activities and obsessions. It's all somewhat interesting and engaging, yet often drifts into the arty and pretentious. The movie is also helped by a subplot showing the young man taking care of his invalid dad, which for a few minutes here and there allows us to view scenes not about self-centered lust. At about 90 minutes, "Lie With Me" doesn't overstay its welcome (but just barely), though I wouldn't recommend it for anything more than a rental. The DVD features a crisp yet warm widescreen image, a commentary by the film makers, and or two other modest extra features.
  
  
• A range of emotions on film
  By AU0DW3JBI1JRV on 2007-06-23
  I bought this movie out of curiosity. I love this movie because of the range of emotions many of us experience when one desires and loves. Virgo uses long scenes with few cuts and dialogue to show what's felt when one falls for another. There's lust, attachment, uncertainty, and resolution. The movie shows how one may grow or regress because of these feelings. Rather than lots of dialogue, Virgo uses the nonverbal communication to show what's felt - the trembling of the lips with anticipation, the attachment to another when kissing their arm while asleep, or the misery and disconnect from being without the other. The plot is simple, but many of us have felt the contents of the movie at some point in time. This movie is the first that has delved into the depth of these feelings and put it brillantly on film.
  
  If you're looking for erotic scenes, they're definitely there, and add to the content of the movie. However, if you're thinking this movie is about nothing but sex, you're misled.
  
  Lie With Me will make you think and feel for these characters. Take the 90 minutes; it's worth the time.
  
  
• It's like watching a car wreck, only prettified
  By A3MYTHNJ08MGYE on 2007-06-09
  I saw this movie on cable one night and couldn't help but purchase it on DVD. There were some elements that if you take them one by one, are not great by itself, but taken as a whole, it sorta worked. The 2 main characters were openly flawed; both had their own background stories, but to me, the movie was really about the heroine. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) was your typical hookup girl. She looks like a disheveled model with committment issues, and she has a face that sorta grows on you-- she's not pretty right away. She also doesn't say anything new (how guys don't feel love, all they think about is sex blah blah), but just like what my title suggests, it's something you can't help but watch anyway. Part of that feeling too is that the two protagonists look like they can be a real-life couple. They both look like models, but not typical (annoying) Abercrombie, just good-looking without trying too hard. David (Eric Balfour) did his part of looking good and sexy...I didn't focus on his acting too much; He certainly looked desirable enough that would merit the fuss over him. I really appreciated the scenes that showed sexual restlessness; it's late in the afernoon, there's-nothing-to-do-and-I'm-lonely/frisky and Leila is by herself...It was a relief to see that after a rebuff, Leila didn't go out shopping or hang out with the girls and sputter self-righteous crap.
  
  
• Recommended
  By A7FCJJ9YEYGVN on 2007-07-01
  Lie With Me is more than just lust and sex. David for example doesn't know what he wants they show him with his dad, which we know is an invalid. He has trust issues just like Leila. When he first sees her, I think that he is infautated with her. He helps her at the party when she becomes dizzy, he watches her when she is walking through that wooded area. Basically he is in love with her. When Leila is having sex with that guy he can't help but feel lust for her at first. I mean the guy watches her and then they make a connection. Leila is dealing with the collaspe of her parents marriage and struggling with herself and what she wants. She meets David and she feels actual love i mean she can't be away from him for one second without wanting to feel him. She talks about how when she has sex that she can feel the pleasure inside of her but wants to feel something completely different with someone else. You guessed it that someone is David she wants to love him but she doesn't know how that is why she leaves him. Then she realizes how much she wants to be with him and he pushes her away. She is persistant and then she shows herself to him. In turn he rips out her heart and tells her he doesn't want to be with her, but that is all a lie cause the hurt in his eyes shows through. I think that Leila freaks out because she doesn't know how to comfort him when his dad dies, because you comfort the ones you love in their time of need. Plus i think Eric Balfour has a nice everything in that movie. Both are passionate towards each other even in those scenes when he gets jealous or is still grieving he hurts and the one person who he loves, leaves him. I don't think that he needs a mommy i thinks he needs a lover and someone to show him who he is. Also when they show Leila like having sex form behind i think that she is scared to let someone make actual love to her but David changes that i mean he asks her out on a date. You don't date someone you just want to have sex with. I love this movie i mean yeah theres graphic nudity but its hot and steamy and the actors make David and Leila come to life. Both Eric Balfour and Lauren Lee Smith are the perfect actors to play them.
  
  
• Love lost
  By A2CP5KBJP4OXLJ on 2006-12-26
  I was shocked this movie was incredible... it gives your emotions a run for the money as well as your libido you MUST SEE THIS MOVIE- I was stunned by the cinematography
  
  
• Sex Sells
  By A1TAI2XZ8VQZ57 on 2006-08-07
  This movie takes you on a roller coaster ride of sexual banality. While the two protagonists are pretty to look at (and you do get to look at them front and back, up and down) it's the slick sick overlay of the girl's narration that really lifts it above a porn flick. Just barely, pardon the pun. Yet it is hypnotic in some strange way. You can't pull your eyes away from the train wreck. You can't stop looking at the victims. I guess because you're suprised that an actor and actress of this caliber would expose themselves voyeuristically this early in their careers.
  
  
• Sexy and the acting is fantastic
  By A1EZC4I00WL6Z on 2007-02-19
  For once a film that shows character development that is worth watching. It has fantastic sex scenes between a man and a woman that will knock your socks off. The characters are "real" and and draw you into the film like an excellent film should: No violence. Absolutely no violence. Which is wonderful -- I love the conflict between the two characters when the woman is American and kind of an air head -- but she has the "English Gentleman" wrapped around her finger. He loves her so much -- and she does love him. However, was it enough to keep them together? You will have to watch the movie to see. The punk rock band was fantastic -- It made me feel like I was right their in England -- being one of the groupies just hanging out. I love how the movie made the "couple" the center of attention when they needed to be -- yet it has a way of viewing them as just part of the crowd that you would never pick out -- just an ordinary couple having a very extraordinary relationship. Since I like a movie with a lot of classy sex scenes and with lots of music with no violence what so ever. It is a must see.
  
  
• wow.
  By A1EFNW35UCXVX9 on 2006-09-11
  loved it. eric balfour is a beautiful naked man. the sex is good. the love story is good. 'nuff said.
  
  
• Loved this movie.
  By A4F8CJ1L4348V on 2006-10-01
  This movie is very close to real life and what people think in thier minds about each other when they first meet. We all develop relationships in different ways. What I also found interesting about this movie is the "balance of interest" between the two people and how it shifts back and forth throughout the movie. People that won't like this movie probably have never lived life to it's fullest. Eric Balfour is also very pleasing to the eye.
  
  
• over rated
  By AX5WSHD1U2ANF on 2007-02-18
  An interesting film about a sexually charged woman who takes control of the situations. It is all right, but the film is really more in the amateur category than of a finely crafted film. Some obvious gaps in continuity, perhaps due to the short shooting schedule. Avoid the commentary, as the director is so full of himself, and Lauren Smith mainly laughs and giggles.
  
  On the positive side, a lot of the movie is conveyed without dialogue, and I am referring to the tension between the characters.
  
  Are the people attractive? Yes. Is the story conveyed interestingly? Pretty well. Are there better movies to spend 93 minutes with? Yes. Was it a wasted 93 minutes? Not really.
  
  
• Lie With Me
  By A2ELBB4IKGE2DD on 2006-11-10
  It was not at all what I expected, but for an independent film it's alright, it has a storyline, not a very interesting one but none the less a storyline. If your looking for a John Holmes type of film, this one is not for you, by the way side note a lead character also was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1.
  
  
• Lie with Me
  By A1W8QXVXRK8SMI on 2006-06-30
  If your a fan of Eric Balfour, from Six Feet Under, you'll love this! My jaw dropped more than once! (In a good way!)
  
  
• Not the most impressive I've seen...
  By A1UWXPGCNADMLR on 2007-01-16
  If you need a good movie to get you in the mood, this will do it. If you're looking for a lot of visual sex scenes, you won't find it here. While you will see boobs, dick, and butt, the three don't come in contact for the viewer to see. Overall, this is a farely decent movie that will help get your sex drive going.
  
  
• boring , one viewing actors suc
  By A225E8LCLEX4FV on 2007-11-29
  much hype it doesn't deliver, i am a fan of the movie "the lover" and "lotita" i was in the mood to see a good erotic film but this one quite a bore, filmed very well though worth a viewing...rent please!
  
  
• Not Porn, But A Lesson In Love . . .
  By A8ZEHJ0E3EIMT on 2008-02-18
  Obviously, the poor reviews for this movie are solely from people who are expecting hard core pornography. Is there sex in this movie, yes. Is it slightly freaky? Perhaps. Is there more to this movie than sex? MOST CERTAINLY! I feel that most of the negative reviews on here are from people who are not absorbing the story but rather watching it for its' controversial images (and truthfully, there is nothing much new here in that department other than full male frontal - and hats off to you Eric Balfour for that!)
  
  Lie With Me is the story of two strangers, Leila and David, who initiate a sexual affair after mutually stimulating each other with sex acts with other partners. David, however, is already involved with someone else and Leila has a problem with commiting. A great line in the movie which I think sums up the whole story is "How do you have sex with someone your in love with?"
  
  This is, above and beyond the language and the sex, a love story. It is about two people, rather soulmates, who know little about each other with the exception of physical pleasures, and fall in love anyway. It shows the vulnerability of both men and women and the ability for love to conquer everything.
  
  I think that the dialoge was absolutely fantastic beyond belief and for the first time in a long time, I found the characters REAL (David saying "I can't stop thinking about you. All day. All night. All I do is think about you, it's all I have left" sent chills up my spine). Will you like them, maybe or maybe not, but I guess you could say I sympathized with Leila because of my younger years - hoping from one person to another, searching for something when I was actually looking for something entirely different.
  
  The characters, down to their personal styles of dressing, showed a lot about the people that they were. Leila may have looked disheveled most of the movie, but if you look at perhaps what the director was trying to say that her life was dishelveled.
  
  Watch this movie with an open mind and REMEMBER THAT IT IS NOT PORN!!!!!! As I said earlier, it is a love story that examines how people can change when they find something worth changing for.
  
  The only reason it was not given 5 stars was that I felt Lauren Lee Smith was ENTIRELY too skinny, almost emaciated, and I feel that this portrays and confirms the negative image that Hollywood and movie makers in general are pushing today. I don't think that protruding hip bones and toothpick thin legs is a positive image for women and I certainly don't feel that it is remotely "womanly".
  
  
• Not a great one
  By A2JNBUPYS4M6H1 on 2007-01-19
  I commend the director, producer(s) and actors for being daring. It would be great to see risks of thematics and/or action (no pun intended) in other even mainstream movies -- "Closer" was close, but J. Roberts never, ahem, bumped or grinded on screen. Unlike "Closer," the dialogue in this one was LAME.
  
  
• Hottest Movie Ever Don't Watch Without Your Boyfriend In Town
  By A131LAUB7RPS11 on 2008-06-17
  This movie is like reading a legitimate book and stumbling across unexpected love scenes. Your into the characters there is tones of hot sex being thrown around, you feel the turmoil of pleasure and moral consciousness. Its like porn for those of us who want a legitimate movie with our heat. The characters obviously aren't suppose to be enlightened individuals but that isn't the point of this movie in the first place. It is suppose to show you a turning point in a girls life triggered by meeting her match in men and to get you riled up enough that you are going to kick yourself if your significant other isn't there to take care of that for you afterward.
  
  
  
• They Can't Show Enough Skin to Make This One Appealing
  By ACBFF25XJC2T7 on 2008-09-25
  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."
  
  
  
  
• about the moie/film lie with me.......
  By AP839YM0XJ664 on 2006-05-15
  Singapore is now showing this film in theatres by possibly recorded out from the DVD and record it into film format..hee hee...anyway the story is about the man finally went back to the woman once he had relations with after he broke off with another woman whom later gor married. There are numrous sexual content in this movie which is n ot suitabe for the yong to view and further more this film is unrated.
  
  Review by:
  
  Ang Poon Kah
  PhD (Prof) in political science from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in Neuroscience from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in Technology from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in Security System from Cambridge University and NUS
  PhD (Prof) in Computer from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in film from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in Business from Cambridge University and NUS.
  PhD (Prof) in Electronics Engineering from Cambridge University and NUS.
  Bachelor degree in computer studies from Techco University
  Zakkers film director
  
  
  

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