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Mood:
- CleverContemplativeSexualGloomySincereWitty
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Plot:
- Crumbling MarriagePsychologicalCouple RelationsInfidelitySexual RelationsVoyeurismDishonestyMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependentPostmodernism
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- USA
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceModern ClassicCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious AwardsSundance Festival Winner
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Style:
- Talky
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Strong Sexual Content
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Sex, Lies and Videotape, 1989
English
USA
Profile of Sex, Lies and Videotape
The mood of Sex, Lies and Videotape is clever, sexual, and contemplative. The plot centers around voyeurism, a crumbling marriage, and infidelity. It is a drama and independent movie. Stylistically, Sex, Lies and Videotape is postmodernist and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Sex, Lies and Videotape is set in the USA. It happens in the 1980s. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner, a modern classic, and a Cannes festival winner. Note that Sex, Lies and Videotape includes strong sexual content.
Summary of Sex, Lies and Videotape
Steven Soderbergh explodes onto the scene with this provocative, intelligent drama about infidelity and voyeurism. Ann Milaney (Andie MacDowell) lives in a comfortable Louisiana home with her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher). She spends her days fretting over the insurmountable problems of the world and her own unfocused sense of melancholy. Although she doesn't know it, she has a good reason to be upset: John is having a torrid affair with her younger, more extroverted sister, Cynthia (the sexy Laura San Giacomo). When Graham Dalton (James Spader), an old college pal of John's, comes to visit, all three are momentarily distracted from personal problems and intrigues as they scrutinize the odd outsider. Ann soon discovers that Graham has some strange habits and problems of his own. Plagued by impotency since the calamitous breakup of his last relationship, the young drifter finds sexual gratification by videotaping women willing to talk about their sexual past and fantasies in front of the camera. A chain of attraction and jealousy develops as the four interconnect in several varied pairings, culminating with Ann's decision to become Graham's latest subject. Soderbergh's highly influential debut independent feature plays like a dangerous thriller that builds in tension until everyone's secrets are bitterly exposed.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 20 January 1989 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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