|
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
In director Steven Soderbergh's low-budget independent
film winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes - without nudity although
with considerable discussion of sexual topics:
- the many videotaped explicit discussions and revelatory
intimate confessions filmed by Graham Dalton (James Spader) as
a substitute for his own emotion-less, impotent and dispassionate
life: ("I'm impotent...I can't get an erection in the presence
of another person")
- his visit to his college buddy-turned-lawyer John
Mullany (Peter Gallagher) with a neglected, sexually-repressed and
frustrated wife Ann (Andie MacDowell)
- the revealed infidelity between the womanizing and
philandering John and Ann's sexually-adventurous bartender sister
Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo)
- also typical of the film -- the candid reflections
of Ann, including her admission: "Anyway, being happy isn't
all that great. I mean, the last time I was really happy... I got
so fat. I must have put on 25 pounds"
|
|
