We All Lie My Darling

This is a heartfelt portrayal of young persons learning to find their voice, establish family, and learn to deal with their identities and relationships. With LGBTQ persons, there is often a need to find your own family and support networks and this film shows several characters learning to work through their relationships to find their new family. The cast is solid although I wish we spent more time exploring the character of Nick as he's the newbie. Exploring his life could also introduce the audience into this new world of relationships he's entering. The female cast is particularly strong in portraying their relationships. I enjoyed this slice of life of Sydneysiders and found their forays into adulthood quite relatable.

Now regardless of it's authenticity, this has got to be one of the worst acted films I have seen a very long time. Set in Sydney, it tells the story of the lives and loves of a group of friends in what is ostensibly a welcoming, thriving and inclusive community. "Michelle" (Ayeshah Rose) takes a different approach to "coming out". She firmly believes it is a matter of personal choice and not something that should be done to accommodate the expectations of others - a view that seems to emancipate "Kat" (Daniella Serret). Meantime, the rest of her friends seem to be wrestling with the usual fears of ageing, loneliness, lust v love, trust issues, yada yada. It's quite a nice looking movie and Rose does have a certain charisma on screen, but the rest of this is just a bit of an over-scripted, humourless, yawn. Maybe it's because I have long since ceased to be a thirty-something, but the angst and weariness of the personalities here just wanted me to scream out - "try living this lifestyle in a wet and presbyterian Scotland in the 1970s, baby! Get over yourselves". Eighty minutes of my life I will never get back - not for me, sorry.

I cannot believe I am the first to review this amazing film, which deals with a group of people who join together and support and even to fall in love with each other. Set in Sydney it shows how being ' different ' from the norm, and often outcast by those who supposedly love them, can become a family of friends. It deals with tact and delicacy the predicament of finding you are HIV+ and the young man who goes through this needs all the love and understanding that he deserves. I do not want to single out a single actor as the acting is above criticism and brought me to tears by its sheer force of reality. There is no ' plot ' in the conventional sense and set against the bars and streets of Sydney it totally convinces. There is a scene towards the end when a drag artist, who has been beaten up, speaks of how despite everything we must all live life to the full. This may sound almost trite, but given the various ' stories ' in the film, which are all complex and involving it rings with such conviction that you believe you are hearing it for the first time. Above all it shows how countries have different approaches towards being ' different ' and Australia does not, in my opinion, come out too well. I cannot recommend this film enough, beautifully filmed and directed, and as long as oppression exists this film will always be needed. Straight or ' different ' this film deserves to have a wide showing as heterosexuality and both male and female homosexuality weave together in a pattern that makes life itself both brighter and better. A loud bravo for excellence.

A movie about friends, lovers, outcasts and hardships. And overcoming it all! I don't know why, but I was reminded of "Rent" which is one of my all-time faves. Really glad I took a chance on this.

A wonderfully intelligent yet very sensitive movie, which captures some aspects of love from different perspectives and experiences. It's a very enjoyable and entertaining movie, yet sensitive to the LGBTQI community through its character development. The story line and acting was marvellous, and believable. The movie is set in Sydney, and in many recognisable settings where the characters could easily be your friends or neighbours.