The Man Who Lies

The Man Who Lies

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Release Date

3/27/1968

Runtime

97 mins

Overview

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's story.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A hallucinatory wartime mystery where truth dissolves under scrutiny, following an enigmatic stranger whose account of himself becomes increasingly unreliable. It's a film that leaves you uncertain about what you've witnessed, and that uncertainty is precisely the point.

Mood

ParanoidUnsettlingContemplativeWistful

Themes

IdentityBetrayalWarMemory

Tone

Detached

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterly

Structure

Unreliable narrator

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