{{short description|2019 Canadian drama film}} {{No plot|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Lie Exposed | image = Lie Exposed poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Jerry Ciccoritti | producer = Leslie Hope | writer = Jeff Kober | based_on = {{basedon|''Pornography''|Jeff Kober}} | starring = Leslie Hope<br>Jeff Kober<br>Bruce Greenwood | music = Robert Carli | cinematography = Alex Gomez | editing = George Roulston | studio = Tintype Pictures | distributor = Mongrel Media | released = {{film date|2019|11|04|Windsor}} | runtime = 93 minutes | country = Canada | language = English | budget = | gross = $7,467<ref name="BOM">{{cite web |url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4266492673/weekend/ |title=Lie Exposed (2020) |website=Box Office Mojo |accessdate= November 24, 2020}}</ref><ref name="NUM">{{cite web |url= https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lie-Exposed-(Canada)#tab=summary |title=Lie Exposed (2020) |website=The Numbers |accessdate= November 24, 2020}}</ref> }}
'''''Lie Exposed''''' is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti.<ref name=hertz>Barry Hertz, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-canadian-sex-and-misery-drama-lie-exposed-is-pornography-for-dummies/ "Canadian sex and misery drama Lie Exposed is pornography for dummies"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', March 3, 2020.</ref> An adaptation of Jeff Kober's theatrical play ''Pornography'',<ref name=knight>Chris Knight, [https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/movies/they-dont-make-em-like-this-any-more-and-thats-a-good-thing/wcm/785ceee9-62a3-454a-97ff-05d7725cfbf3 "Lie Exposed: They don't make 'em like this any more — and that's a good thing"]. ''Ottawa Citizen'', March 5, 2020.</ref> the film stars Leslie Hope as Melanie, a woman who responds to a cancer diagnosis by abandoning her husband Frank (Bruce Greenwood) to go to California and pose nude for a tintype photographer (Kober), before returning home to Toronto when the photographs are slated to be exhibited in a gallery show.<ref name=smith>Janet Smith, [https://www.straight.com/movies/1368311/lie-exposed-has-some-very-tired-ideas-about-vagina "Lie Exposed has some very tired ideas about the vagina"]. ''The Georgia Straight'', March 4, 2020.</ref>
The film's cast also includes Benjamin Ayres, Megan Follows, Kris Holden-Ried, David Hewlett, Grace Lynn Kung, Daniel Maslany, Kristin Lehman and Tony Nappo.
The film premiered in November 2019 at the Windsor International Film Festival.
==Critical response== Chris Knight of Postmedia panned the film, writing that "Every so often there comes along a Canadian film to remind us of the stereotypical CanCon of old. You know, the kind of loosely plotted stories where couples stand in dark rooms and talk darkly and obliquely, and drink darkly, and glance obliquely at one another, until 90 minutes pass and the whole exercise comes to an end with no one in the film any wiser, and no one in the audience any more entertained."<ref name=knight/>
For ''The Globe and Mail'', Barry Hertz wrote that the film "is dull and repetitive and may induce embarrassing memories of catching furtive glimpses of various soft-core movies on Citytv from back in the mid-1990s, but at least Melanie and Frank's story contains a drip of sincerity to it." He concluded that the viewer's time would be much better spent typing the word "pornography" into Google to see what turns up.<ref name=hertz/> Janet Smith of ''The Georgia Straight'' wrote that the film "feels behind on 21st-century art theory, on ideas about the male gaze, and who holds the power," and concluded that the film "is ambitious, but it’s never quite as shocking, raw, or life-changing as it wants to be. The overall impression, to steal from Lana Del Rey, is beautiful people with beautiful problems."<ref name=smith/>
==Awards== Robert Carli received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.<ref>[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1527585/song-of-names-the-twentieth-century-antigone-prix-ecrans-canadiens "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations"]. Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|8262686}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|lie_exposed}}
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Category:2019 films Category:Canadian drama films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Films directed by Jerry Ciccoritti Category:Canadian films based on plays Category:2019 drama films Category:2019 English-language films Category:2019 Canadian films Category:English-language drama films