Lie with Me (2005 film)

Lie with Me is a 2005 Canadian erotic drama film directed by Clement Virgo, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Tamara Faith Berger.

Leila has learned she has some power over men with sex but feels a part of her is still untouched, holding back, despite her assertiveness.

When they go back to the club again, Leila dances suggestively with a couple of men while watching David's reaction, and he is hurt and angry when they return to his place.

She picks up the shy man again, but strikes at him in anger when he is unable to follow her peremptory commands, and throws him out of her apartment in disgust.

Leila spends time with her parents as they go their separate ways and gets ready for the wedding while the summer is coming to an end.

He waits outside the synagogue and approaches her as everyone floods out onto the sidewalk following the wedding, and then Rachel grabs Leila's hand and she calls out to David, to ask if he is coming.

Lauren Lee Smith said that when she got a call from her agent on the requirements for the role of Leila, which clearly included not only nudity but on-camera live sex, she thought he was kidding.

Writing for Variety, Leslie Felperin says that "Barry Stone's lensing, favoring a soft, Northern-climes afternoon light for the sex scenes in particular, looks dreamy throughout", but that "with its drawn-out last act and sentimental ending, [this] pic is a long way from being the Gen-Y Last Tango in Paris it would like to think it is.

Ron Mashate, writing for Stylus Magazine, concurred in part: Similar to Virgo's well-received Rude (1995), Lie with Me is about capturing a distinctive mood.

The Bee Hives [album] version of [the song] 'Lover’s Spit' asserts itself, representing Virgo’s telos: sinuousness, elegiac, inaccessible.

And if Woody Allen writes love letters to New York, Virgo is attempting the epistolary equivalent with Toronto.