Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

Original title

sex, lies, and videotape

Directed by

Steven Soderbergh

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 1,044 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man visits his old college friend and his wife, and his unusual hobby of videotaping women talking about their sexual lives shakes up their marriage and the wife's younger sister. The film explores how secrets and honesty affect relationships.

tenseintimateslow-burnconversationalunsettlingmelancholicpsychologically probinglow-key

What happens

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (often written in all lowercase as sex, lies, and videotape) is a 1989 American independent drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot tells the story of a troubled man who videotapes women discussing their sexuality and fantasies, and its impact on the relationships of a troubled married couple and the wife's younger sister. Sex, Lies, and Videotape won the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, making Soderbergh the youngest solo director to win the award; he was 26 at the time. The film was influential in revolutionizing the independent film movement in the early 1990s. In 2006, Sex, Lies, and Videotape was added to the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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