Lie with Me

8/24/2023

Writer Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquédoc) has been suffering from a bit of a creative block when he agrees to return to his childhood home to do a presentation for it's legendary cognac producer. Somewhat disinterested in the whole affair he is greeted by the effusive "Gaëlle" (an increasingly scene-stealing Guiliane Londez) who races around ferrying him from pillar to post in quite a frenetic fashion. Quite by chance, there are some visiting Americans at the vineyard and they are being guided by "Lucas" (Victor Belmondo). The latter man has a surname that triggers memories in the former and now we are taken on a parallel tracked story that illustrates forbidden (first) love from 1984, and offers a shot at redemption for both the younger and the older man. The story is gently paced

8/29/2026

This is a story told in two different times, one as two seniors in high school who fall in love, but their relationship does not last; and the other many years later when one of them returns to the town after becoming a famous writer. \[Spoilers Ahead\] One of the guys left town and became a successful writer and he is invited back to the town 35 years after leaving it to be a speaker for a celebration at a local company. Now in his fifties, he encounters the son of his high school boyfriend in what he believes a chance encounter. In time he finds out that his former boyfriend passed away tragically a year ago and that the son had deduced that he had a relationship with his father and secretly arranged for him to get the invitation to speak so he could question him about their relations