Lie with Me / Arrête avec tes Mensonges is sweet considering what it's about, even light at times but it works. These flashbacks are intense, believable, and capture gay teenage love well.

Julien De Saint-Jean and Jérémy Gillet are just amazing in this film, their scenes give life and weight to the scenes in the present.

In the present scenes, it's mostly him and Victor Belmondo - famous last name and familiar features but the first time I've heard or seen him in anything - they are good but not as poignant as the flashbacks. His internal emotional turmoil reads perfectly as he comes back into town and meets Lucas. Guillaume De Tonquédec is the only actor in the cast I knew by sight but I've seen him more in comedic roles - at least that's the memory I have of him - but he nails it. The whole cast is great but there are standouts. The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson-the French Brokeback Mountain (Elle)-about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984. The flashbacks actually feel like memories, as bittersweet as they can be, and contrast well with Stephane now as he's still hurt by them and yet cherish them. ‘Lie With Me’ by Philippe Besson, Translated by Molly Ringwald Author: Michael Kaler Featuring a teenage protagonist not any good at sports, a rural town doomed to die, and a taciturn lover with a serious look, the premise of French author Philippe Besson’s latest novel Lie With Me, translated by Molly Ringwald, is fairly broad. Ultimately, Lie With Me is simply a beautiful and poignant love story, a short and very French tale whose sparse, delicate prose is gorgeously translated by. A movie that goes back and forth between the present and the past is nothing new, and someone reminiscing on their first love isn't either, but this film does a good job of it in the way it's structured. The movie captures that quite well, there's a rawness to it that makes it feel like you're watching these events as they are unfolding whether they are in the present or the flashbacks. As is the book, the story here is autobiographical and it is felt.

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