Lies of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lies of love |
| Original title | L'appartement |
| Country of production |
France Spain Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gilles Mimouni |
| script | Gilles Mimouni |
| production | Georges Benayoun |
| music | Peter Chase |
| camera | Thierry Arbogast |
| cut |
Caroline Biggerstaff Françoise Bonnot |
| occupation | |
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Lies of Love , also known as Love and Lies , is a 1996 drama film directed by Gilles Mimouni . It was a Franco-Spanish-Italian co-production.
action
Software manager Max Mayer is about to get married to Muriel, whom he met during his two-year work stay in New York. Before going to Tokyo for several days , he meets his friend Lucien again, but has to go to a work lunch, so he only promises to get in touch with him. At work lunch, shortly before the flight to Tokyo, Max wants to make a short phone call. A woman is standing in the closed phone booth and Max thinks he can recognize his former lover Lisa by the voice. He had met her some time before he left for New York, they had both fallen in love and he wanted to spend his life with her. For inexplicable reasons, however, she rushed to go on a theater tour lasting several months and he had to go abroad without the two of them having seen each other again. Now Max rushes after the woman, but misses her. Back in the phone booth he finds a hotel key, but the room is empty. Max falls asleep. The next morning he found a newspaper clipping in the hotel room that spoke of a woman's funeral. He remembers the woman's phone call in the phone booth: The woman accused a certain Daniel of having read about an incident in the newspaper and of not believing it was an accident. The article tells of the widower Daniel, who tragically lost his wife. Max suspects that the woman from the phone booth will go to the funeral. He goes to Lucien and borrows the car from him. At the funeral he only sees the widower Daniel, whom he follows. He leads him to an apartment where he leaves a letter. Max takes the letter addressed to a certain Lisa. He in turn writes a letter to her asking for a meeting.
Max waits in vain for Lisa and finally returns to her apartment. During his visit Daniel had thrown the door key in the mailbox that Max took and broke into Lisa's apartment. The woman who appears in the evening is not his Lisa, however, but another woman who wants to take her own life. Max saves her and is initially dismayed that he was so mistaken. They both end up spending the night together and the fake Lisa ends up sleeping with him.
Max doesn't know that the wrong Lisa is Alice, Lucien's girlfriend. She met Lisa once before she started a relationship with Max. She admired them from afar before they both became friends. Alice, on the other hand, secretly fell in love with Max, and reacted jealously when he met Lisa. When Lisa had to rush to Italy with her theater company, she handed Alice an explanatory letter with the request to send it to Max. Alice never sent off the letter in which Lisa told Max that she would spend her future with him if he wanted to wait two months for her. Max took Lisa's inexplicable departure as an opportunity to take the two-year job in New York. Now Max is back and Alice happened to see him at his business lunch in the restaurant. Lisa was also there, who actually wanted to meet Alice on site. Lisa is in an unknown place, she is afraid of the madly jealous Daniel, who - she suspects - killed his wife in order to be able to live with her. Alice, in turn, takes advantage of Lisa's absence to assume her identity and impersonate her. She also stays in Lisa's apartment. Daniel in turn sees Max at the window of Lisa's apartment where he is with Alice. He now suspects that Lisa has a lover.
Things get more complicated when the real Lisa happens to receive a message from Max that he had left in the café for the unknown telephone operator. Lisa calls the given phone number and lands with Lucien. She tells him that she will wait for Max in a park. Lucien, in turn, introduces Max and Alice to each other and Max realizes that he is the victim of a liar . Alice makes it clear to him that she always loved him. Because Lisa was hoping to see Max again, she passed a planned trip to Rome on to Alice. Alice now says goodbye to Max, because she has to go to the airport. Max realizes that he loves her after all and hurries after her. Lisa in turn waits in vain for Max, gives up her caution and returns to her apartment. Daniel is already waiting for them here and sets the apartment on fire. Lisa dies in the flames. Max and Alice hug each other in the airport, but Alice separates from him on an excuse and wants to leave unnoticed. Max follows her, but meets his fiancée Muriel halfway through, who thinks he has just come back from Tokyo. They both hug, Alice watches them and finally leaves.
production
Lies of Love was filmed in Madrid and Paris . It was the directorial debut of Gilles Mimouni, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. Laurence Heller created the costumes and Philippe Chiffre designed the film . The film opened in French cinemas on October 2, 1996 and premiered on German television on September 18, 1997 . The film was released on video on October 19, 1998; Lies of Love was released on DVD in 2008. Paul McGuigan made a remake of the film in 2004 with Longing .
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , Lügen der Liebe was "a film that is tightly spun in conflict situations, but [...] in the course of the plot loses sight of the well-developed protagonists and relies too much on the quarrel between the people".
Cinema called the film a “sophisticated emotional maze” and summarized it: “A fast roller coaster of great emotions”.
Awards
The film received two César nominations in 1997 : in the categories of Best New Actress (Monica Bellucci) and Best First Work (Gilles Mimouni).
Lies of Love won a British Academy Film Award in 1998 for Best Non-English Language Film . He also won a British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film .
Web links
- Lies of Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lies of love in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lies of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de