Lies (Gojitmal)

Lies (Gojitmal) (1999)

  • 54% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (860 ratings)

This erotic drama follows bad boy director Jang Sun Woo's controversial Bad Movie (1997), a gritty, documentary-style look at Seoul street kids which featured such taboo themes as drug abuse, casual sex, and prostitution. Based on the banned book Tell Me a Lie by noted novelist Jang Jung Il, the… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 52 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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