| Actor | Role | Description | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Stéphane Belcourt (present) | A renowned, closeted novelist. Elegant, guarded, and brittle. He has built his life on beautiful lies. | | Victor Belmondo | Lucas Andrieu | Thomas’s adult son. Warm, observant, and searching for his father’s hidden life. He is the catalyst for confession. | | Jérémy Gillet | Stéphane (1984, age 17) | Intense, bookish, and braver than he knows. He falls first and hardest. | | Julien de Saint Jean | Thomas Andrieu (1984, age 18) | The golden boy—athletic, popular, with a violent father. He loves Stéphane but is paralyzed by fear. | | Anne Le Ny | The Publisher | Stéphane’s sharp, loyal publisher and confidante in Paris. |
The title, Lie with Me , serves as a thesis statement for the characters’ emotional realities. The film interrogates the necessity of dishonesty. In the past, Thomas is forced to lie to his family and peers to hide his homosexuality, a necessity of survival in a provincial, heteronormative society. In the present, Stéphane lies to himself, burying his trauma under professional success. The encounter with Lucas serves as the catalyst for the truth to surface. As Stéphane realizes Lucas is Thomas’s son, the film shifts from a romance to a painful confrontation with legacy. The "lies" of the title are not malicious, but protective barriers built to shield the characters from a world that refused to accept their love. lie with me film 2022 verified
Lie With Me is not a standard “gay tragedy” nor a simple romance. It is a mature, literary film about the specific grief of a love that was never allowed to live—and the unexpected grace of telling the truth, even 35 years too late. Highly recommended for fans of God’s Own Country , Weekend , or André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name (the novel). | Actor | Role | Description | |