Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Seks Yalanları), 1989
USA, 35mm, Color, 100’, English

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Andy McDowell, James Spader, Peter Galagher

The film takes place in Los Angeles and tells the story of a couplewith a complicated sexual life. The equilibrium in the relationship of the the couple is upset with the arrival of a stranger.With videotaped sexual fantasies, along with all the lies and secrets, relationships become ever more complicated. Sex, Lies, and Videotape was written in eight daysbySoderbergh, when he was29,duringatripto Los Angeles.With an unexpected box-office success, the film won the Palm d’Or and earned Spader the Best Actor award at Cannes.