Rien que des mensonges
  • motion picture
  • 1h 26m

Rien que des mensonges

  • 1991
  • Director Paule Muret

Muriel lies. She lies to her friends, to her husband, to her son. She has a lover A very discreet lover, whom she seldom confides in. Is shw afraid she may lie to him too?   This is the story: nothing but lies. No major crimes, no real betrayals. Like a garden under the moonlight, all to herself. As if this secret bore tho most precious gift. These transitions, this melting of two days, two worlds, where she cant invent her own world. As if she were more in love with her love than with her lover...   Muriel lies. But she begins to realise that these lies bring confusion and that she wants more than just that. She wants traces, pictures. She wants proof to put reality and lies back into place.   And when she gets this proof she shows it to her husband, whom she still loves despite his unfaithfullness. Not as a confession but as a burning hot gift...

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With Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin
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Synopsis

Muriel lies.

She lies to her friends, to her husband, to her son.

She has a lover

A very discreet lover, whom she seldom confides in.

Is shw afraid she may lie to him too?

This is the story: nothing but lies.

No major crimes, no real betrayals.

Like a garden under the moonlight, all to herself.

As if this secret bore tho most precious gift.

These transitions, this melting of two days, two worlds, where she cant invent her own world.

As if she were more in love with her love than with her lover...

Muriel lies.

But she begins to realise that these lies bring confusion and that she wants more than just that.

She wants traces, pictures.

She wants proof to put reality and lies back into place.

And when she gets this proof she shows it to her husband, whom she still loves despite his unfaithfullness.

Not as a confession but as a burning hot gift...

Details

Duration
1h 26m
Format
35mm, Farbe, 1:1.85
Production
Coproduction France/Switzerland Arena Films und Vega FIlm

Credits

Director
Paule Muret
Script
Paule Muret, Jean-François Goyet
Producer
Bruno Pesery, Ruth Waldburger, Jean-Bernard Fetoux
Cast
Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin
Photography
Renato Berta
Editing
Catherine Quesemand
Sound
Louis Gimel
Music
Stéphane Delplace
Art direction
Raul Gimenez
Costumes
Marielle Robaut
Versions
F; F/d