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SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Fri, Apr 17 9:30 PM
Night
Owl Cinema
Steven Soderbergh’s
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
Friday, April 17th at 9:30 PM
$18 Public | $11 Members
With his provocative feature debut, twenty-six-year-old Steven Soderbergh trained his focus on the complexities of human
intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter
Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John’s old friend Graham (a magnetic,
Cannes-award-winning James Spader)
comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering
his startling private obsession: videotaping women as they confess their
deepest desires. A piercingly intelligent and flawlessly performed chamber
piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters’
isolation, the Palme d’Or–winning sex, lies, and videotape changed
the landscape of American film, helping pave the way for the thriving
independent scene of the 1990s. (USA,
1989, 100 mins, R, English | Dir. Steven Soderbergh)

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