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WHERE
THE TRUTH LIES
directed by Atom
EGOYAN
CANADA | UNITED
KINGDOM
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Actors
Synopsis
| A beautiful naked girl is found dead in the
bathroom of a hotel suite after spending the night
partying with two showbiz celebrities. Fifteen
years later a young journalist with her own agenda
begins an investigation into what happened that
fateful night, thereby triggering events beyond
her
control. | |
Extracts of
Dialogues
Karen: Have you ever thought about writing a
book?
Lanny: About what?
Karen: Your life.
Lanny: Sure, when I'm dead. I mean, it would
have to be published after I died when I won't
care what anyone thought of
me.
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Red Carpet Arrivals:
"Where the Truth Lies" - 13/05/2005
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Flanked
by actors Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard
and producer Robert Lantos, Canadian director Atom
Egoyan walked up the red-carpeted stairs this evening
for the presentation of his competition feature Where
the Truth Lies. Other red carpet arrivals included
Germano-Turk director Fatih Akin, member of the Jury,
who presented his latest film out of competition
Crossing the
Bridge. |
Competition: "Where
the Truth Lies" by Atom Egoyan - 13/05/2005
Atom
Egoyan is back on the Croisette with a drama slyly
entitled Where the Truth Lies. This is the fourth
time the Canadian director presents a film in
competition in the Official Selection, following
Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
- which was awarded the Jury Grand Prize - and
Felicia's Journey (1999).
Where the
Truth Lies, based on the best-selling mystery novel
by Rupert Holmes, follows a woman journalist as she
strives to untangle a web of murder and deceit, fifteen
years after the fact. One night, two celebrities happen
to be in the company of a beautiful young woman who
later turns up dead. Will the amateur sleuth be able to
distinguish where the truth lies? According to Atom
Egoyan, who teamed actors Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth
with Alison Lohman for the picture, Where the Truth
Lies is "the story of a conflict between a public
myth and a private
history." |
Press Conference:
"Where the Truth Lies" - 13/05/2005
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Atom
Egoyan, director of Where the Truth Lies, which
has been described as a story about a conflict between a
public myth and a private history, met the press today
in the company of actors Colin Firth, Kevin Bacon and
Rachel Blanchard, as well as producer Robert Lantos.
Here are some selected excerpts.
Kevin Bacon on
the development of the comedy duo: “With Colin being
British, when we got to Canada we just started to think
about how that might be and how we could have the
button-down British guy and the ugly American and the
contrast of that. I looked at a lot of Martin &
Lewis, also a lot of the Smothers Brothers, Abbott &
Costello, Laurel & Hardy...”
Colin Firth
on their comedy act: “It was hugely dependent on
spontaneity and our relationship. I was very tempted to
go for this role as an American as written in the book,
but it was irresistible the advantages in keeping the
Englishness, both as an act...and in my character's
behaviour off stage. We tried to make a virtue of the
contrast so the cliché of the Englishman is the formal
schoolmaster if you like, and the cliché of the American
is the unruly eternal adolescent. ”
Rachel
Blanchard on her script: “Once I have completed a
scene, I have a hard time remembering what was on the
page, because it's almost like a dream. You have a hard
time separating the two, what really happened and what
was there originally. ”
Atom Egoyan on the
dark side of the film: “I think that as dark as the
film is, it ends with a tremendous beam of light, that
the decision she makes is very optimistic. I think that
in a lot of the films that I have done, the characters
go to very dark places to find something that provides
some hope. ”
Atom Egoyan on the quantity of
nudity: “That sense you feel as the viewer, that it's
going too far, is absolutely essential to the dramatic
intention of the piece. The viewer has to experience a
sense of violation. I wanted to create this world that
was intoxicating. I wanted it to be unbridled...nothing
was holding them back. I have a great producer who
doesn't make me think about censors, but we probably
will have issues.
It's really interesting to see how
people respond to the sexuality and not the violence.
That he's going too far when he's bashing the guy's head
against the floor. No one ever talks about that. That's
the goriest scene I've ever done. ”
Atom
Egoyan on style and noir movies: “I revisited a lot
of noir movies and it seems to me that the defining
aspect of noir is not any particular visual style but
the sense that the character is dealing with the notion
of fate. That is what defines noir. All these characters
think they have a machine figured out and will be able
to control things, but in fact it's all illusion. I love
then the way the viewer becomes implicated in the
noir.” |
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