![]() ![]() Renoir Theatre - Directors Guild of America Join Peyon for a Q & A following the film. ![]() Starring Guillaume de Tonquédec and Victor Belmondo, with Jérémy Gillet and Julien de Saint Jean as the young lovers, the North American premiere of LIE WITH ME screens this week as part of The American French Film Festival. Published in English as Lie With Me-three words that add an extra layer of meaning to the proceedings-the French bestseller (and subsequent play) relates the story of a successful middle-aged author named Philippe as he relives the ecstasy and heartbreak of his teenage love affair with Thomas Andrieu (1966–2016), to whom the book is dedicated.įor the film version, director Olivier Peyon changed the names of the principals, giving his actors a measure of freedom and distance. Given the biases and elisions of memory, perhaps it’s just as well that Philippe Besson’s almost-memoir Arrête avec tes mensonges carries the description “novel” on its cover. ![]()
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