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Little White Lies

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After a traumatic event, friends go on a beach vacation where their relationships are sorely tested as they are forced to admit the little lies they have been telling one another.
Little White Lies

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Critics Consensus

Little White Lies luxuriates in the company of its impressive cast and small-scale dilemmas to its detriment, yielding a comedy of initial charm that meanders into boredom.

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Laura Kern Film Comment Magazine 06/20/2013
Little White Lies is less a portrait of the poignance and beauty of lasting, mostly platonic relationships than a lesson in how to be a shitty friend. Go to Full Review Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch 10/11/2012
3/4
"Little White Lies" is a bit too long, but has plenty of Gallic charm. Go to Full Review John Hartl Seattle Times 09/27/2012
2.5/4
A sprawling, initially engaging French comedy-drama that became a hit in France but ultimately underwhelms. Go to Full Review Toni Vall Cinemanía (Spain) 11/04/2019
3.5/5
It is a film of emotional comings and goings, disappointments, silences and relapses. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 07/30/2019
The real power in Canet's Little White Lies is its group of familiar, loveable and likeable characters who all could be someone we would love to know and befriend. Go to Full Review PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro 02/03/2019
2/5
Guillaume Canet's great mistake is in having the gall to craft a moral about the seeming pettiness and emotional blindness of this bunch of vacationing, bourgeois Parisiens. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Guillaume Canet

Director

François Cluzet

Max Cantara

Marion Cotillard

Marie

Benoît Magimel

Vincent Ribaud

Gilles Lellouche

Éric

Jean Dujardin

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Movie Info

Synopsis After a traumatic event, friends go on a beach vacation where their relationships are sorely tested as they are forced to admit the little lies they have been telling one another.
Director
Guillaume Canet
Producer
Alain Attal
Screenwriter
Guillaume Canet
Distributor
MPI
Production Co
Les Productions du Trésor, EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Caneo Films
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 24, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 15, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$199.6K
Runtime
2h 34m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)