Lie Exposed (2020)

Directed by

Jerry Ciccoritti

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

14A

Rating

3.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman diagnosed with cancer leaves her husband to travel to California. There she poses nude for a photographer who uses an antique technique. The resulting pictures are planned for a gallery show back in Toronto and she returns home to face the fallout.

introspectivecontemplativeintimatemelancholicslow-burnsensualquietly intenseunflinching

What happens

Lie Exposed is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti. An adaptation of Jeff Kober's theatrical play Pornography, the film stars Leslie Hope as Melanie, a woman who responds to a cancer diagnosis by abandoning her husband Frank (Bruce Greenwood) to go to California and pose nude for a tintype photographer (Kober), before returning home to Toronto when the photographs are slated to be exhibited in a gallery show. The film's cast also includes Benjamin Ayres, Megan Follows, Kris Holden-Ried, David Hewlett, Grace Lynn Kung, Daniel Maslany, Kristin Lehman and Tony Nappo. The film premiered in November 2019 at the Windsor International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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