Beautiful Lies details
| Formats: | 12 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stephanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla |
| Director: | Pierre Salvadori |
| Genres: | Comedy - Drama, Romantic, Romance - Drama, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | TRINITY FILMED ENTERTAINMENT |
| Original title | De vrais mensonges |
| Name | Discs | |
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Beautiful Lies |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 40 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 07 Nov 2011 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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By Tegan Kniveton from LOVEFiLMAudrey Tautou reteams with the director of Priceless for another quirky French rom-com.
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Charming Funny and Engaging
By mk2009 (42 reviews) from Cardiff , 23 Aug 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
I am a big fan of French films, Beautiful Lies does not disappoint. It is charming and subtly funny, shot in a lovely coastal town with neurotic layered characters. Audrey Tautou is great and Sami Bouajila is very funny as the confused blackmailed love interest.
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(70)Entertaining and enjoyable.
By MzBizkitz (67 reviews) , 01 Apr 2013Another pleasant Audrey Tautou movie, if you're a fan of her you'll probably like this. Easy going and very light, worth a watch.- Was this review helpful to you?
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French Delicacies and a naughty mother
By a customer , 16 Mar 2013Funny, quirky and a great watch. Perhaps not her finest role, but who cares, it was done with panache and intelligence. A change from the inuendo laden American romcoms, French ones have a lot more humour.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A bit off
By a customer , 12 Mar 2013Something was off here. It seemed to drag and was not the cute little comedy of errors chick flick I was expecting. Audrey Tautou was perhaps not well cast. She played a hairdresser who was supposed to be intimidated by someone with higher qualifications but actually she was just too intelligent, stylish, sopisticated and full of depth (being Audrey Tautou) that it just didn't work for me. It was a bit like Raiffe Feinnes in Maid in Manhattan... only worse. I suppose this complicated farce style is difficult to pull off and it just didn't kind of work. Better luck next time. The mother character was also charming, beautiful and elegant but she was totally ridiculed by her daughter without much point (though her actions were supposed to be out of care, which seemed to jar.) The balance was all off in the story telling. I kept trying to watch a bit more and it was so irritating I just had to put it back in the envelope and just get it out of the house. And then I thought heck, what if other people read the nice reviews I did and rent it and get a headache too? So as a humanitarian act of kindness I have enscribed this caution. *May cause headache*. What did I like...? Um, the location was pretty nice, it seemed warm and they all wore nice clothes. I learned how to prounced 'merde' with emphasis because Tautou said it a lot...- Was this review helpful to you?
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If Romcoms were deserts, this would be an Ile Flottante
By Spectator (35 reviews) , 11 Mar 2013[Highly rated reviewer]
Light, delicate, sweet, very French but leaving you wanting a little more. Also, perhaps Romfarce would be a better description than Romcom. Having said that I did enjoy it. Not too demanding, very well acted (I would be happy to watch Audrey Tautou paint walls), beautiful setting (which they could have made a little more of) and though there were no belly laughs there were plenty of smiles. The problem I have with this film is that I cannot help but compare it to 'Amelie' which is one of my favourites. If Audrey Tautou was good in this film then she was brilliant in 'Amelie'. Also the plot and direction were original, quirky and charming, a high water mark in Romcoms. Did it pass the 'Did my wife stay awake for the whole film' test? Yes, easily, but then she likes French films and she says that reading subtitles helps her stay awake.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not enough substance to keep me interested.
By SeasideCinema (10 reviews) from Nairn , 03 Mar 2013As ever Audrey Tatou's acting is expressive and engaging. The characterisation was good enough to draw me in and cause me extreme frustration that Emillie was incapable of being honest and caused hurt to those around her. If that was the dramatic intention it was a success. However, once you realise that's how it's going to be throughout there was not enough substance in what remained to keep me fully interested. Pleasant enough though.- Was this review helpful to you?
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