Film Info
Tell Me Lies
Film Information
Exhibition Title | Tell Me Lies |
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Director | Peter Brook |
Country | ![]() |
Year | 1968 |
Format | 35 mm |
Colour | Color + B&W |
Duration | 108' |
Cast:
- Mark Jones, Pauline Munro, Robert L. Lloyd, Glenda Jackson, Ian Hogg
Credits:
- G: Peter Brook, Michael Kustow, Dennis Cannan
- F: Ian Wilson
- E: Ralph Sheldon
- S: Robert Allen
- M: Richard Peaslee
- P: Peter Brook, Peter Sykes
- CP: Brook Productions
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Synopsis
“The wrong film at the right time”, critic Stanley Kauffmann dismissed it back in 1968, and indeed Tell Me Lies met hostile reactions and was mostly forgotten – to reemerge triumphantly in a wonderful restoration last year: Not just as a major work of famed theatre and film director Peter Brook, but as one of the era’s finest films. “The images of a napalm-burnt Vietnam shocked our small group from the Royal Shakespeare Company in exactly the same way”, Brook said: So working with his sterling troupe, they adapted material from their current production-in-progress US (deemed “bestial, anti-American and Communist” by the censors), resulting in the fullest expression of Brooks’ Brechtian ideas about cinema. Self-analysis and reenactments by an outraged set of actors clash with newsreels, demonstrations, musical interludes and anti-war skits, resulting in a complex social mosaic, unusually and painfully aware of its remove from the actual battlefields: There’s a reason for its subtitle, A Film About London. CH
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