Introduction: A Title That Lies (And Tells the Truth) When Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, its lowercase, grammatically stuttering title announced something radically different. This wasn’t a steamy thriller. It was a quiet, intimate drama about what happens when people try to search for honesty using the one medium that can also fabricate it: video.
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Soderbergh does something clever: until the very end. We only see the reactions of those watching. This forces the viewer to search for meaning in the faces of the listeners, not the recorded images. The videotape becomes a Rorschach test. Introduction: A Title That Lies (And Tells the