Lilies (1996)

Memorable, crazy movie

Fresh and Exciting

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I really loved this movie. This was a tale well told and the acting was very impressive. I felt like I was watching a high quality play on Broadway! Brent Carver was brilliant and the whole cast wonderful. Very interesting to stick with a male cast, but it worked! At times you almost forgot that there were no women in this movie! The casting was superb and I thought the eye candy was excellent and they could act! The movie managed to create a wonderful environment that gave off a terrific atmosphere.The story was so intriguing and kept you on the edge of your seat. I thought this was a really wonderful tale told extremely well and what a treat!

This is the sort of pretentious crap that has killed art-house cinema. The fact that the players speak English makes it more criminal to hear dialogue that appears to have been written in French and then sloppily translated. The actors speak like they are reading bad subtitles and are therefore forced to speak some very idiotic sentences indeed. The young actors are pretty but surprisingly sexless. They come across like twelve year old girls, not mature enough to pretend they have any of these feelings. This is stressed even more by the casting of older men in female roles, at once an insult to women and to gay men. Any film in soft focus is considered "beautiful" today and this one is particularly ugly with fantastic scenery badly photographed and endless shots of lakes and cottages that add nothing to the setting. The prison scenes are strictly 1960's bad theater of the absurd. This play on film presents a convoluted jilted lover plot worthy of a daytime soap pretending it is saying something important about homophobia. Indeed who is the true villain here? The jealous lover who killed for his love and became a priest in his atonement or the selfish and closeted Simone, who was dumping his true love after one beating from dad. It is Simone who is the sinner here but the writer would rather not see that and blames some smitten waiter for all the crimes of humanity. Apparently Simone paid for his real sins by ageing really badly, a punishment only a gay man would understand. Even with it's drag queen women and naked girly-boys, LILIES is not good gay cinema. But it sure is queer.

A very well-put together movie. The sort that feels complete and well-told after you watch it.Everything I would expect from such a movie: dramatic, tragic, and sexy. Definitely worth seeing.Someone commented that it was confusing... I found it a bit confusing, but I understood it all at the end. If I'd been paying a bit less attention, I can see how it would have been bad that way. But I think this movie is worth paying attention to see; the story is told in a very unique way.Or maybe I just haven't seen enough clever movies, making me really like this one.

This movie is absolutely my favorite, it moves my soul so much that i can´t even describe it... I was so astonished about this because i never believed that anyone could do movie like this. It was so touching , even i´we seen Lilies 20 times it make me cry every time.