Literary lie
Adaptation of Basson’s novel shines with a literary sensibility GREGG SHAPIRO | Screen Savor GreggShapiro@aol.com Based on queer writer Phillippe Basson’s gay novel — with an English translation written by Molly Ringwald — director/screenwriter Olivier Peyon’s Lie With Me (Cinephobia), now available on DVD, plays out like an adaptation.
And that’s intended as a compliment. The movie, about a gay novelist returning to his hometown in the Cognac region of France, has a literary sensibility that is very effective.
Stéphane (Guillaume de Tonquédec), a French writer living in Paris, is the author of popular novels that have earned him a devoted following over the years.
One of his fans is Eleanor (Laurence Pierre), the wife of Mr. Dejean (Pierre-Alain Chapuis), the owner of the cognac distillery in the town where Stéphane was born and raised.
