Little White Lies

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Little White Lies

Released Aug 24, 2012

2h 34m

Comedy

Drama

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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.

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

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.

Jun 20, 2013

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Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Little White Lies" is a bit too long, but has plenty of Gallic charm.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 11, 2012

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

A sprawling, initially engaging French comedy-drama that became a hit in France but ultimately underwhelms.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 27, 2012

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Toni Vall

Cinemanía (Spain)

It is a film of emotional comings and goings, disappointments, silences and relapses. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 4, 2019

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

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.

Jul 30, 2019

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PJ Nabarro

Patrick Nabarro

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.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 3, 2019

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Sara A

Loved it! Cluzet and Canet are hllarious. Cotillard is always good. They are laughing at themselves. They are far from perfect but flawed humans. They did a terrible thing by leaving their friend dying in hospital to go on vacation. But they admit their wrongs. The main thing is they live life to the fullest.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/02/23

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colin m

Enjoyable French black comedy. Interplay, highs and lows, between friends.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Very entertaining. Certainly reminiscent of the Big Chill, (not a bad thing). A tad long, but worth it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Personajes muy humanos y reales, las actuaciones te hacen creer que lo son. Muy buena quimica entre el grupo. Desearia tener un grupo asi cada verano

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Great cast. Strange and unbelievable story.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Guillaume Canet's ode to The Big Chill has some funny, touching moments, but it's 154 minutes long..... Why? No idea. It's just completely unnecessary to make a film this long. My other problem with Little White Lies is we're supposed to care about a group of friends who decide to go on vacation when one of their friends (Jean Dujardin) is stuck in a hospital bed after being nearly killed in a motorcycle accident. Some friends they are....

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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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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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: M6 Films, Les Productions du Trésor, Caneo Films, EuropaCorp
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)