Lies (Gojitmal)

Lies (Gojitmal) (1999)

  • 54% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (854 ratings)

A conscious exploration of fantasy and flesh. The director talks about the novel upon which the film is based, we see the crew at work, the actors talk about what's going on. Y, a schoolgirl of 18, chooses her first lover. She begins an affair with a sculptor who's 38. Y's brother discovers the… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 55 min.
Directed By
Sun-Woo Jang
Written By
Sun Woo Jang
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Nov 17, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Jan 15, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews

    this is sex with all the passion of a geometry proof and all the awkwardness of a junior high school dance . . .

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    I don't get off in watching the leads taking turns whipping each other in different hotel rooms.

  • Ethan Alter, Film Journal International

    Actually, what makes Lies...so difficult to sit through is not the sex...but the dramatic and emotional tedium that dominates much of the movie.

  • Arthur Lazere, culturevulture.net

    a thoughtful and complex examination of the byways of human emotion and sexuality

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