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John Greyson’s acclaimed 1996 hit, LILIES, is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard’s own play Lilies. The film depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates. Through recollections and confessions, this gay classic reveals a love kept secret for decades.
New 4K Restoration of Director John Greyson's LILIES - Releasing in New York City on Friday May 24th at the Quad, and in Los Angeles on Friday, May 31st at Landmark's Nuart Theater.
- 2 min
- 6.9K
- Strand Releasing
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Lilies might have been overlooked for quite a while, but its 2023 restoration has thankfully enabled more viewers to watch the tale of an imprisoned gay man finally telling his story, turning the tables on a long overdue confession.
- Alain Gendreau
- John Greyson
Lilies: Directed by John Greyson. With Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, Jason Cadieux. When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
- (2.9K)
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- John Greyson
- 1997-08-16
Starring Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio. A visually intoxicating queer rhapsody of desire and repression, revenge and redemption unfolds as a deliriously stylized play-within-a-film in this sumptuous cinematic pageant adapted from the stage work by Michel Marc Bouchard.
Jun 10, 2024 · Lilies went on to the New York Film Festival, where Stephen Holden reviewed it for the New York Times and described it as “an extravagantly mannered revenge fantasy . . . [that] raises the level of protest at religious prohibitions against homosexuality into a piercing operatic cry.”
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