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.
