sex, lies, and videotape
An impotent drifter who films women talking about their sex lives arrives in a Louisiana town and disrupts the marriage of an old friend and his unhappy wife.
Cannes Palme d'Or 1989 won
Graham, a drifting former college friend, arrives in a Louisiana town where he reconnects with Ann and her husband John. Graham is impotent and reaches intimacy only by videotaping women as they speak candidly about their sexual lives. His presence exposes the affair John is conducting with Ann's sister and unsettles every relationship around him.
The film circles confession, voyeurism and the defences people build against desire, laying bare repression and the way honest speech can carry more charge than sex itself. It gives a therapist a study of how avowal and avoidance structure intimacy. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1989.
Details
- 1989
- United States
- English
- Film