Sunday, November 18, 2012

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer:    Steven Soderbergh
Cast:      James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallaghar
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.

The debut feature from Soderbergh won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes and launched the careers of several from the cast and the director himself. Soderbergh, 25 at the time, wrote the script in 8 days whilst doing a cross country trip. Sex, Lies and Videotape is important in film history for raising the profile of Independent Films. It was also the break-out film for  Miramax which is generally associated with Independent films (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction etc).

Rating: 5/5

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