sex, lies, and videotape

sex, lies, and videotape

the husband. the wife. her sister. his friend.

1989101 min7.0 / 10

A psychologically tense chamber piece about desire, deception, and voyeurism that uses intimate interviews and minimal staging to excavate the sexual and emotional dysfunction beneath a marriage's surface.

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

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