Lies

Directed by Jang Sun-woo

Omnibus Entertainment

1999

112 Minutes

South Korea

Korean

Erotic, Drama, Romance, Asian

Asian Studies, Sex & Sexuality

Not Rated

Library Pricing:

DVD $150.00

Blu-ray $150.00

PPR $350.00

DRL $499.00

PPR+DRL $599.00

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Y, an 18-year old high school senior, begins a sado-masochistic affair with J, a 38-year-old sculptor. Y lies to her parents to meet J and lose her virginity to him. Soon, their sexual relationship intensifies with increasing sadistic acts. After a three-month trip to Paris, J reunites with Y, now an adult, and there is nothing to stop the two. They leave everything behind and become sexual vagrants in their own hedonistic world. Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Cast

Lee Sang-hyun
Kim Tae-yeon
Jeon Hye-jin
Hyun Joo Choi

Highest Rating
"Someone has finally done it -- made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama."

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Highest Rating
"Jang Sun-Woo's deliciously witty film deals with the polarities which underlie all relationships: honesty and dishonesty, trust and distrust, bravery and cowardice. This splendid film confirms him as one of contemporary cinema's most persuasive liars."

Tony Rayns, Sight & Sound
Highest Rating
"Sly... witty.... At once perceptive, moving, queasy and comically relentless."

J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Highest Rating
"Astonishing.... Confirms the director as Asian cinema's most provocative talent."

Time Out
Highest Rating
"A thoughtful and complex examination of the byways of human emotion and sexuality."

Arthur Lazere, Culturevulture.net
Highest Rating
"The beauty of the film, nonetheless, lies outside of the controversy surrounding it – it unveils a layer of Korean society that is supposed to be kept tightly under wraps."

Mladen Pechevski, Eastern Kicks