Despite the coquettish title and a menu featuring more heavy breathing than sports day on the TB ward, Lie With Me blows its load early by mistaking ‘sexual’ for ‘erotic’. The demurely-named Clement Virgo directs with a certain naive charm via DoP Barry Stone’s obvious (and inexpensive) passion for giddy 16mm close-ups and flaring afternoon sun, but there’s a terminal lack of chemistry between damaged bad girl Lauren Lee Smith and The OC’s Picasso-featured beefcake, Eric Balfour, that renders even the odd flash of semi-on strikingly flaccid.
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Alas, Virgo underlines his own shortcomings by repeatedly referencing Last Tango In Paris during his yak-track with a hysterically uncomfortable Lee Smith. But if that comes over a tad prudish, check out the ironically perverse Making Of, which fails even to mention the fact that our mantling protagonists spend 60 percent of the movie doing the no-pants dance.
