The Man Who Lies

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Audience Member Talk about bizarre! This is in the top 50 best French movie list and I suppose one could see it as avant-garde given its made in the late 60's French cinema & deals with some pretty disturbing subjects: lesbian sex, sadism, "le resistance!" but I just dont get it. Quel bizarre! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm assigning a 3 Star rating more for the cinematic curiosity that is THE MAN WHO LIES. The film itself is quite bad. The plodding and silly surrealism and camera work goes from odd to annoying fairly quickly. However, there are some interesting ideas at play here. Robb-Gillet does not have enough skill to pull it off, but he does get an interesting performance from Jean-Louis Trintignant. Trinignant is the main reason to see this film. Also is an interesting example of how artists managed to create their work by bending it into "fetish/KINK/erotica" genre to secure distribution in the Grindhouse cinemas. Not good, but certainly unique, Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review walter m "The Man who Lies" is all about fantasy and the effect it might have on reality. It starts off with a standard adventure sequence wherein Boris eludes half the German army while dodging bullets and climbing trees. At one point, we assume he has finally had it but then wakes up the next morning, brushes himself off and walks to a town where he not been in a long time, although he is not really sure how long.(To confuse matters further, the fashions are more 60's than 40's.) As also part of his fantasy, Boris greatly resembles Jean-Louis Trintignant in his prime. So, maybe we should not believe everything he says, as Boris seems to be the father of all unreliable narrators. For example, he claims to know Jean Robin(Ivan Mistrik), a legendary resistance fighter, who has been missing for two years. Laura(Zuzana Kocurikova), Sylvia(Sylvie Turbova) and Maria(Sylvie Breal) wait patiently at home for him while playing pin the tail on the donkey in a typical heterosexual male fantasy with sapphic overtones. So, while we get an idea as to what really happened through all the different versions offered, it really does not matter. What we are concerned with here really is the behavior of survivors after the end of a war. A lot of people see this as a time to reinvent themselves, which is where Boris comes in, especially if they were on the wrong side in the first place. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm not sure what to make of this. A man wanders into a Polish village occupied by Nazi's, claiming to be a local borne soldier who was thought to be dead. Yet his true identity remains impenetrable, as he constantly invents and reinvents his past. One of the most confusing movies ever. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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