#Arrête avec tes Mensonges

[storytellinh]

Lie with Me, Philippe Besson

[tinderheartpaperbody]

Ok jolie couverture qui rappelle celle de A little life et tout, but here's the original :

[samsdei]

Julien De Saint Jean & Khalil Gharbia

[alittlefrenchtree]

Hi everyone! I’m very happy to announce that Call me by your name is having a new baby this year. Their new child is a dark-very-angsty-french (synonyms) movie. Unfortunatly it has a very lame name but it will break your heart all the same. If you have a chance to see it, please do. If you’re a cmbyn writer, please write something inspired by it so I’ll have a chance to break my heart in two different ways at the same time? 😍 not sure if anyobody would actually write something like this so I’ll may have to do it myself. in the next 5 years or so.

Anyway, Arrête avec tes mensonges, ladies and gentlemen:

[mauxpourdesmots]

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

June Monthly Reading Wrap-Up

I read four books this month. ✨

1. My Policeman, Bethan Roberts — ★ 2/5 stars ★

2. Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx — ★ 4/5 stars ★

3. Arrête avec tes mensonges (Lie with me), Philippe Besson — ★ 5/5 stars ★

4. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong — ★ 5/5 stars ★

Keep reading for my unsolicited opinion on what I read this month.

1. My Policeman by Bethan Roberts

My Policeman is told from the point of view of Marion and Patrick, who are both in a relationship with Tom. Despite the fact that it is narrated by Tom’s two lovers, I failed to discern what was so special about him. Marion and Patrick are willing to sacrifice — or otherwise compromise — seemingly everything for Tom — their safety, their desire for emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy, their desire for a family, their career, their future — but I never understood why. Tom has no personality. He is attractive. He is short. He has a decent smile. He swims. Surely there are other men like this in Brighton. Perhaps even men with a personality.

Because Tom lacked a point of view, I also failed to feel any compassion for him. While I sympathized with both Marion and Patrick (albeit reluctantly), I failed to do so with Tom. Tom is consistently indecisive, inconsiderate, dishonest, and selfish, but I never understood why. I was never privy to the rationale behind his behavior or the motivations behind his actions.

Tom aside, Roberts’ writing was laughable at times, the transitions between the present and the past were clumsy, and the time skip toward the end of the novel was lazy. The result was an imitation of a queer classic, and a cheap one at that.

3. Arrête avec tes mensonges (Lie with me) by Philippe Besson

Arrête avec tes mensonges (Lie with Me) is a tender portrayal of queer first love. It captures the universality of the queer experience — of vulnerability and intimacy rooted in shared alienation and isolation, of obsessive, addictive, and all-consuming desire and the subsequent loss of identity, of the fragility of such a relationship, the inevitability of heartbreak, and the aftermath that follows.

4. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a sensitive exploration of race, sexuality, intersectionality, and identity. It is a lyrical testament to brutality and intimacy, violence and trauma, memory and loss — and above all, survival.

[jazzyfe14]

Anyone know where I can watch the French film Lie with Me/Arrête avec tes mensonges ?? I’m not located in France, but I loved the book. Pls 😭

[wornoutspines]

Arrête avec tes Mensonges / Lie with Me (Movie Review) | A Touching Yet Familiar Story with Great Acting

Philippe Besson's #LieWithMe adaptation has a great cast that gives weight and life to this #queer story. #ArrêteAvecTesMensonges #GuillaumeDeTonquédec #JérémyGillet #JulienDeSaintJean #PhilippeBesson #VictorBelmondo #MovieReview #LoveisLove

I’m already off to a great start this year when it comes to watching more French movies, with Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, and A La Belle Etoile. This film is based on the book by Philippe Besson that I’m dying to read, more now that I’ve seen this movie. Olivier Peyon is directing, it’s the first movie of his I’ve seen. Guillaume De Tonquédec is starring alongside Victor Belmondo,…

[peonies-and-dreams]

He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.

[jorgetomesantos]

DEIXA-TE DE MENTIRAS (Arrête Aves Tes Mensonges) de Olivier Peyon

No meu blog FITAS & VIDAS QUEER podem ler a minha opinião sobre este filme.

Aqui fica o link: https://fitas-queer.blogspot.com/2024/02/deixa-te-de-mentiras-arrete-aves-tes.html

[geryrrs]

Lie with me (2022)

[divinesymmetry]

Kicking off Pride Month with a list of the best Queer movies I've seen:

Paris is Burning (1990): an absolute MUST WATCH for every single queer person

Fire Island (2022): Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho and Pride and Prejudice, what's there not to love??

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999): Natasha Lyone and Clean Duvall do gay stuff together, RuPaul plays an ex-gay, need i say more?

Maurice (1987): the dark academia gay period piece of our dreams (plus Hugh Grant???)

Dating Amber (2020): one word - ireland (see also: Handsome Devil)

Nowhere (1997): if you're not saying "huh?" you're not watching it right

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) is the absolute basis for camp

Moonlight (2016) needs no introduction

Été 85 (2020): gays on motorcycles cinematic universe

Fear Street Trilogy (2021) and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022) because lesbians can kill, too

Edge of Seventeen (1998): what is gayer than a bad bleach job?

God's Own Country (2017)

The Watermelon Woman (1996): absolutely underrated classic

The Thing About Harry (2020), Alex Strangelove (2018), Crush (2022), Bros (2022) because we deserve dumb lil rom coms

120 Battements par Minute (2017), Arrête avec Tes Mensonges (2023), Pariah (2011), My Own Private Idaho (1991), for when you just wanna sob uncontrollably

Happy Pride ! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[tinderheartpaperbody]

[samsdei]

Jérémy Gillet & Julien de Saint-Jean

[alittlefrenchtree]

So I read it today, almost in one go. I've started a couple of dozen pages yesterday but I read most of it this afternoon without really stopping.

It's a short book with an easy writing style to read and it's mostly why I read it in one day. It's funny because I think it's the first time I like a story but didn't really enjoy the book. So between the book and the movie, I'd recommend the movie, because I prefer the story told by the script than the story told by the book.

The main reason why I couldn't enjoy the book as I would have like, is because I didn't like the writing style. It's not bad, it's just the complete opposite of what I like in terms of writing. And even more, it's against about my whole philosophy of what writing should be. That being said, the style is coherent with everything and makes a coherent story that wraps in a coherent way.

I don't prefer the movie because it feels less cruel (even if it does feel less cruel). I prefer the movie because it feels more complete as a story. I imagine the book is closer to what really happen and since reality isn't scripted, there are holes and unfinished things.

I'm still heartbroken tho. Fuck homophobia. Fuck homophobic traditions and societies. Fuck stupid people.

[amyriadfthings]

Fresh out of the movie theater and just want to say please watch Le Paradis / The Lost Boys (2023) if you have the chance. Full to the brim with it right now. Saw it at a special screening with a message from the director (Zeno Graton) before, so knew about the personal nature going in. But the general question it poses about how society treats its youth, youth that comit crimes, young boys of color, felt very universal. Powerful performances by all the young actors involved, and the film stays close to a few of them throughout even though they´re not the main cast, pulling you in so effectively. (The moment where one of them has a birthday in the facility and you see the number on his cake is gutting.) Brought me to tears several times and stayed seated through the credits at the end after full body chills from the last scene. It´s only playing in two theaters here rn and may be available online already, but I might have to go see (support) it again. Also, Julien de Saint-Jean sure knows how to pick his (french queer) films that do me in emotionally. First Arrête avec tes mensonges / Lie with me and now this, which packed a whole other punch. (And it´s not like he´s done much more than those two films, so keep it up with those choices, my dude. Loved Khalil Gharbia´s Joe, too.