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Forbidden Lie$
Directed by
Anna Broinowski
Not Rated
2007
1h 44m
Documentary
,
Drama
7.8
91%
87%
7.6
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A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
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Cast of Forbidden Lie$
Norma Khouri
Herself
Malcolm Knox
Himself
Rana Husseini
Herself
Justin Webb
The Paparazzi
Anna Broinowski
Herself / Director
Forbidden Lie$ Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Even after you've seen Forbidden Lie$, the dizzying, drop-dead fascinating documentary on Norma Khouri, you won't be absolutely sure if she's on the level or a con artist ranked as "one of the best ever." That's how good she is.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Forbidden Lies, a documentary by Anna Broinowski, records, fascinatingly but with far too much slick finesse, Norma's world-class con artistry.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
...provides a clear-eyed perspective of a charismatic con artist weaving a spell of deception with every word she utters.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Forbidden Lie$ holds our attention with Khouri's increasingly brazen and unrepentant insistence that she's the only voice of truth in a violent world.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Even as Broinowski exposes Khouri's shameful and pathological abuse of such genuine tragedies, the filmmaker may be giving her subject exactly what she wants.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
Like 2003's "Shattered Glass" this film is a story of one of the best scandals ever. A well done documentary and valuable opportunity to see how good a con-artist can be.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Captivating, provocative and more sensationally thrilling than your average documentary.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
Director, Anna Broinowski, and her illusive subject, the scheming best-selling author Nancy Khouri, are locked in a cat and mouse game, but you're never quite sure who's playing which role. Their compelling competition of wits turns this documentary into
Boxoffice Magazine
Cathleen Roundtree
Forbidden Lie$, a Mbius strip of a documentary, weaves in and out of its protagonist's story to the point of exhaustion -- but the ride is thrilling and intermittently jaw-dropping.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Sucked in by her subject, the director gets too close for objective necessary cutting.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
One of the year's best films.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Cool-headed, lighthearted and outrageously entertaining, Forbidden Lie$ is documentary-as-striptease.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
it's hard not to feel by the end of this film that one is looking into the giggling face of evil.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
Khouri's transparency is stunning and so is this flashy documentary, delivering an astounding, enraging story of literary deception and moral bankruptcy that's thrilling to watch.
New York Press
Mark Peikert
By the doc's end, how much of what Norma says is fact or fiction doesn't matter as much as the entertaining, infuriating journey that Norma (and Broinowski) has taken us on.
Village Voice
Elena Oumano
This entertaining, provocative film raises pointed issues about con artists and their sometimes-culpable "victims," and also speaks to the elusive pursuit of documentary truth.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Writer-director Broinowski's foremost achievement was convincing the discredited Norma Khouri to sit down and defend herself on camera.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Louis Proyect
Highly entertaining documentary on a con artist who barely seems capable of distinguishing fact from fiction even she wanted to. Also a revealing commentary on the Islamophobia that made her phony book and Bush's phony war possible.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
It must be fun to make a film about a con artist when the con artist is a full and willing participant, literally going to the ends of the Earth to prove she is the real deal.
Variety
Richard Kuipers
Spends an entertaining first hour with the charismatic con artist but fails to quit while the going's good.
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