LIES

“Someone has finally done it — made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama.” — Entertainment Weekly “Jang Sun-Woo’s deliciously witty film deals with the polarities which underlie all relationships: honesty and dishonesty, trust and distrust, bravery and cowardice. This splendid film confirms him as one of contemporary cinema’s most persuasive liars.” —Sight & Sound Some limits are meant to be pushed. Y, a high school student, meets J, a 38-year-old married sculptor, and the pair soon quit their lives to hop from hotel to hotel in an increasingly dangerous sadomasochistic obsession. Adapted from Jang Jung-il’s banned novel Tell Me a Lie, LIES is “sly, witty, and at once perceptive, moving, queasy, and comically relentless” (Village Voice) and confirmed Jang Sun-woo (TIMELESS, BOTTOMLESS, BAD MOVIE) as “Asian cinema’s most provocative…