An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Lie with Me

2022

French

7.5

♡ 16

97%

Olivier Peyon Director

Sophie Fougère as La préfète

Cyril Couton as Le libraire

Pierre-Alain Chapuis as Monsieur Dejean

Guillaume de Tonquédec as Stéphane Belcourt

An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.

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Lie with Me