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Though the characters in this tasteful adult drama keep a stiff upper lip, the moral dilemmas are nuanced and the emotional pain feels real.
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What lies underneath doesn't surprise. But it's fascinating to watch that peeling as it happens. Nov 18, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
What lies underneath doesn't surprise. But it's fascinating to watch that peeling as it happens.
Roger Moore
A solidly made but strangely lightweight drama. Nov 1, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A solidly made but strangely lightweight drama.
Jamie Woolley
A chilly, intelligent and absorbing drama about infidelity, ethics and forgiveness. Oct 21, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A chilly, intelligent and absorbing drama about infidelity, ethics and forgiveness.
Connie Ogle
It's as grown-up as a movie can get, with a fine cast in a strongly crafted tale about the calamities that can wreck a relationship and the love that can redeem it. Oct 21, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4
It's as grown-up as a movie can get, with a fine cast in a strongly crafted tale about the calamities that can wreck a relationship and the love that can redeem it.
Bruce Westbrook
As a very British film about very British personalities, class differences and attitudes, it's just about perfect. Oct 17, 2005
As a very British film about very British personalities, class differences and attitudes, it's just about perfect.
Richard Roeper
The deceptions of Separate Lies are so uniquely and recognizably human they become a cautionary warning to us all. Oct 14, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
The deceptions of Separate Lies are so uniquely and recognizably human they become a cautionary warning to us all.
Terry Lawson
Wilkinson and Watson give sharply observed performances, that don't allow the film to become a sudser. Jun 9, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Wilkinson and Watson give sharply observed performances, that don't allow the film to become a sudser.
Dennis Schwartz
"Separate Lies" is a hearty mystery/drama that blooms as a succinct social critique of British aristocracy. Apr 19, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
"Separate Lies" is a hearty mystery/drama that blooms as a succinct social critique of British aristocracy.
Cole Smithey
A fascinating character study of lies, truth and the consequences May 13, 2006 | Full Review…
A fascinating character study of lies, truth and the consequences
Urban Cinefile Critics
Separate Lies seems to take forever to unfold, and when it does, it makes one wonder if it was worth the trouble. Mar 2, 2006 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Separate Lies seems to take forever to unfold, and when it does, it makes one wonder if it was worth the trouble.
John J. Puccio
At the mercy of material so fussy that no amount of frenetically-chopped vegetables can lend the piece much in the way of tension. Feb 12, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
At the mercy of material so fussy that no amount of frenetically-chopped vegetables can lend the piece much in the way of tension.
Walter Chaw
...Fellowes, who won a much deserved Oscar for his screenplay for Gosford Park, makes a fine directing debut with this updated variation on a classic theme... Dec 15, 2005
...Fellowes, who won a much deserved Oscar for his screenplay for Gosford Park, makes a fine directing debut with this updated variation on a classic theme...
Andy Klein
Separate lies, starring Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, and Rupert Everett is a good drama. A film that centers on a love triangle of a married couple and a death of a neighbor intersects these people...very good film.
Super Reviewer
[font=Century Gothic]In "Separate Lies", James Manning(Tom Wilkinson) is a high powered solicitor who commutes to London from his home in Buckinghamshire, where he lives with his wife, Anne(Emily Watson). Despite his reluctance, Anne throws a cocktail party but James ducks out by staying late at the office. In the meantime, their housekeeper's husband was killed by a hit and run driver. After noticing a scratch on the car belonging to their neighbor, William Bule(Rupert Everett), James confronts him and gets an admission of guilt and a promise to turn himself in to the police. When presented with this news, Anne is taken aback because not only was she in the car with William when it happened, but she was actually behind the wheel. To make matters even worse, William and Anne have been having an affair.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Separate Lies" is an understated drama with some very powerful scenes. Themes of success, guilt and morality are handled in a very intriguing manner. [/font][font=Century Gothic]The movie is buoyed by an excellent performance by Tom Wilkinson. And nobody does leonine decadence like Rupert Everett.[/font]
A quiet indie drama starring Tom Wilkinson, Sepearte Lies takes almost a noirish approach to the topic of upper-class English infidelity. James Manning (Wilkinson( discovers after years of happy marriage to Anne (Emily Watson), that she has been having a private affair behing his back. He actually discovers this by accident; a by-product of prying into a local hit-and-run accident. With a subtlye approach, Wilkinson expresses his character's dark curiosity in both the accident (?) and said affair. In this regard, his status is shown up for what it really is: a social formality that means nothing to his position as a male. This can make the film disappointing to some, as James is walked on by his wife (and nearly everyone else) in spite of him being the jilted lover, and never really does anything about it. Though this does ably illustrate the complexity of maturity, it also serves to make the film unsatisfying, as James starts a doormat and stays so. Excellent performances scuppered somewhat by an inconclusive script.
This thriller was not really shocking between the affair and accident.
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