Archive of films Where the Truth Lies / Where the Truth Lies

Canada / United Kingdom / USA
2005, 107 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2005

After years of performing together, two famous television comics unexpectedly go their separate ways. Fifteen years later, a young journalists decides to investigate the reasons why they split up their act. She finds out that the truth is far more complicated that she had imagined. The film benefits from excellent performances by leads Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon.

Synopsis

At the end of the fifties, Lanny Morris and Vince Collins were the most popular comedians in America, watched by millions of television viewers. One day they went their separate ways, but neither ever achieved the success they had previously enjoyed as a team. Fifteen years later, a young ambitious journalists decides to find out why they split up their act. She discovers that it somehow involved a dead woman in a hotel room. When the journalist digs into the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death, she gradually realizes that the truth is far more complicated than she had at first imagined. Indeed, her investigation unleashes events that she soon cannot control. The film comprises two generically different parts: the first deals with the two beloved comics’ performances, the ‘faces’ they reveal to the media, which differ greatly from their private appearances. The second, rather conventional part is something of a psychothriller, following the progress of the investigation. The film was screened in competition at this year’s Cannes festival.

About the director

Atom Egoyan (b. 1960, Cairo) is of Armenian origin but grew up in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1982. He has been involved in theatre and has shot several short films. World acclaim came with the films Family Viewing (1987), Speaking Parts (1989) and The Adjuster (1991), which were awarded at a number of festivals. He contributed a segment to the film Montréal vu par... (1992); Calendar (1993) takes up his relationship to Armenia; and Exotica (1994) focuses on the fascination with ambiguity. Then followed The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Felicia’s Journey (1999). The central characters in his films are often white-collar workers standing outside the plot but drawn into it through curiosity and the circumstances of their own lives; this is true of the customs officer in Ararat (2002). Egoyan also directs for the theatre (recently Wagner’s The Valkyrie for the Canadian Opera Company).

Contacts

Summit Entertainment
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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Atom Egoyan
Screenplay:	Atom Egoyan
Dir. of Photography:	Paul Sarossy
Music:	Mychael Danna
Editor:	Susan Shipton
Producer:	Robert Lantos
Production:	Serendipity Point Films, First Choice Films
Cast:	Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard
Contact:	Summit Entertainment, SPI International CE

www:	www.serendipitypoint.com/wttl/frameset.asp

Guests

Atom Egoyan

Film Director, Film Director