Wahre Lügen

INHALT

Fans of director Atom Egoyan might be surprised to find him working in a more commercial vein than usual, with this labyrinthine 1970s-set thriller. The almost impenetrable plot follows Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman), a feisty journalist investigating the suspicious death of a young woman, whose body was found in a New York hotel room in 1957. The focus of her enquiries is a pair of popular nightclub entertainers of that era (Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon), who appear to be implicated in the tragedy. Egoyan certainly delivers a few stand-out sequences, as well as some typically odd (and sexually explicit) ones, and Bacon is excellent as Lanny, a supercilious entertainer whose "real" personality is a world away from his polished stage persona. But the accumulation of flashbacks and shifting perspectives (presumably an homage to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon) is so confusing and frustrating, that in the end you'll find it difficult to care about the truth - whatever it is.