Innocent Lies [DVD]

This was very different that what I expected. It was definitely a dark story with incest, murder and betrayal. The actors were fantastic but be warned it is dark. Rec'd fast and in mint condition. 5 star seller.

I did like the story however, i wish it would have delved deeper with the brother's obsession with his sister ... If you're into weird movies that have a incestuous twist in it than get this movie!

Brother Loves Sister. Sister kinda seduces Brother. Both hate Mother. Incest is the theme. Don't watch with your sibling. Or cousins either, for that matter.

Ok.

The movie came quickly and was in good shape. I am glad to have this movie as it is very nice.

A classic Gabrielle Anwar movie for her die hard fans!

Was this movie released under another title? Did some other reviewers see a bad copy? I saw the last few minutes of it on TV and went out to rent it. Nobody had it. It wasn't even in any of my movie books. Then I found it and the story was one of the best mysteries stories I have seen. You need to understand the times. Frightened by communist spread, many in Europe turned to Nazis for help in fighting the menace -- especially the wealthy. In 1938, into this milieu, a British detective, played by Adrian Dunbar, seeks to find how a friend had died. The only clue he has leads to the Graves, an English family living in France. The mother is pro Nazi. Two of the siblings seem possibly be in an incestuous relationship. Another sibling had been slain in an accident years before. This "accident" leads to blackmail and incest. This may be what the deceased friend had discovered that lead to his death. Stephen Dorff and Gabrielle Anwar play the nearly-grown siblings. Anwar is at the peak of attractiveness. I usually hate to see girls who look like their lips have been smashed by a brick but in this one case I make an exception. She seems to want out of the relationship but can't resist Dorff's touch, even on the eve of her wedding. More murders occur as Dunbar seems about to break the case. But he, too, is under Anwar's spell. He wants to help her escape, when Dorff shows up again. I don't want to spoil it. The photography is marvelous. The music fits the scene. A enchanting look at pre-war France. And I'm sure if Hitler had seen the mother's taste in art, he'd have had her shot.

This short movie seemed to have a lot going for it with interesting and generally attractive actors on the poster, however it turned out its main asset was it was over in only 80 minutes!The plot turned out to not really be a plot, the characters were all flawed to an unimaginable extend (not shades of grey which is more realistic and preferable for this reason). The 'detectives' (one French and one English) were completely without charisma and their acting ressembled something from a school play... resulting in a rare collaboration of cross-channel dilletance !The incestrous and promiscuous elements and sexual under (and over) tones were used to little effect, other than possibly attract a couple of people by the ability of making 'steamy' trailers.....A waste of time

Did anybody spot that this movie was based on Agatha Christie's Towards Zero?Me neither.Whatever the source might have been, what you actually get is some pretentious tosh shot in an irritating tricksy tricksy manner by the love child of Michelangelo Antonioni. It is all sudden jump cuts between large solemn close-ups, with no preparation, no background and no context. The story is so compressed that despite the location shooting everything seems to take place in an airless, claustrophobic void.Celia's confession scene has to be seen to be disbelieved.This really is a piece of work.The DVD is rubbish as well. It is reformatted for TV but not panned and scanned. They simply cut the edges off the image so that all the compositions look bad. This ruins the cinematography that other reviewers have praised.I know you will make up your own mind, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Received in excellent order and what a bloody good film with excitement and thrills to keep you engaged and watching, brilliant and enjoyed from start to finish.

As described.

hat absolut gar nichts mit dem Buch von Agatha Christie zu tun. langweilig

Der Film spielt in den 30er Jahren, was er sonst mit Agatha Christie zu tun haben soll, konnten Rezensenten hier auch nicht feststellen. Nun soll man Buch und Film nicht vergleichen, aber hier drängt sich doch der Verdacht auf, dass mit dem Namen der bekannten britischen Autorin ungerechtfertigt geworben werden soll!Ein Detektiv aus England erscheint mit Tochter (Keira Knightley werbewirksam vermerkt, spielt aber kaum eine Rolle als 10jährige Tochter) zur Beerdigung eines Freundes und Detektives, an dessen Selbsttötung er nicht glaubt, stößt auf eine dubiose Familie, deren jetzt erwachsener Sohn im Alter von 12 "aus Versehen"(???) seinen Zwillingsbruder getötet hat, aber er liebt seine etwas jüngere Schwester, und als die Mutter der beiden getötet im Bett liegt, soll der Detektiv, der sich etwas in die junge Frau und umgekehrt verliebt hat, herausbekommen, wer Mama jetzt beseitigt hat, seine Ermittlungen tragen zur Klärung des Falles wenig bei. Der getötete Freund gerät schnell in VergessenheitSchöne Bilder, eine nicht sehr glaubhafte Beziehung zwischen Bruder und Schwester, ein farbloser Ermittler, ich konnte keinen Gefallen an der mauen Geschichte finden. Lediglich Gabrielle Anwar als Schwester gefiel.Doc Halliday