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Innocent Lies

1995 · 88 min

A slow-burning period mystery that feels tense and shadowed, with a sense of buried secrets and moral unease.

Tagline: The truth is deadly
Overview: In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: deception
family
guilt
class
mystery
Places: small town
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, thriller, mystery
Directed by: Patrick Dewolf
Written by: Kerry Crabbe, Patrick Dewolf
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Stephen Dorff, Joanna Lumley, Keira Knightley, Adrian Dunbar, Michel Winogradoff, Florence Hoath, Alexis Denisof
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Patrick Blossier
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France, United Kingdom
Languages: French, English

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