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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Would I Lie to You?; A rags-to-riches comedy centering on Eddie, a drifter hired by Victor, a Sentier patriarch and wholesale fabric dealer. Victor mistakenly thinks Eddie is a fellow Jew, and the latter has enough chutzpah to keep quiet about his origins. Soon the once-shiftless Eddie shows a knack for business and rises through the ranks from stockroom boy to salesman. In the process, he earns the friendship of a quartet of young Sentier hustlers who take him out to the deafeningly loud restaurants and discos frequented by their kith and kin.; ; Would I Lie to You, Again?; Eddie, Dov, Yvan, Patrick and Serge are all friends and associates working in Paris'' Le Sentier garment district. When their small shops become threatened by internet entrepreneurs and department store discounters, the clothing compatriots must fend off bankruptcy and keep their businesses afloat. To this end, Eddie and Yvan attempt to bargain with the enemy- chain store manager Vierhouten. But when Vierhouten proves treacherous, the end seems near. ...Would I Lie to You? / Would I Lie to You, Again? ( La Vérité si je mens / La Vérité si je mens! 2 )
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A rare case of the sequel being the better film,
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This review is from: Would I Lie To You / Would I Lie To You Too [2004] [DVD] (DVD)
Would I Lie to You isn't exactly an unpleasant way to spend 100 minutes, but it's all sit and virtually no com. The sit has potential as Richard Anconina's down on his luck goy is mistaken for a Jew and given a job in the garment industry by Richard Bohringer, but the film never really finds anything particularly funny to do with it. Even blundering his way through a family Shabbat or trying to bluff his way through his family history when meeting a rabbi (the only two sequences where Judaism is really raised) only produces the very mildest of attempts at humor. Indeed, the only identifiably comic moment is that old favorite of French comedies, gratuitous violence inflicted on innocent bystanders, which is always guaranteed a huge laugh in the French salles.
Which makes it all the more surprising that the belated sequel, Would I Lie To You Again? is so enjoyable. You won't bust a gut watching it, but it is funnier and much better put together (despite one piece of clumsy recasting), ignoring the culture clash comedy entirely in favor of corporate comedy and a different case of mistaken identity. The con at the end doesn't really work because it's impossible to believe any businessman wouldn't study the specs before signing a contract, but the numerous backhanders and sweeteners en route certainly ring true. Disposable but pleasant enough, although they couldn't have known when they made it that having a joke involving Mel Gibson (well, a spectacularly bad lookalike at least) partying with Jewish businessman would take on a whole new resonance with age. Arrow's single-disc double bill offers decent subtitled transfers, although the subtitles on Would I Lie To You Again? are not formatted for widescreen TVs.
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