The Invention of Lying transplants Ricky Gervais, Reading accent intact, to an idealised place (filmed in Lowell, Massachusetts) where there’s no such thing as lying – until one day, in a brainwave, he invents it. Gervais plays Mark Bellison, a writer of documentaries for a film company. Since fiction doesn’t exist, history is the only subject for movies.
Gosh quite a poor review for this film from the Catholic Herald. Shame I really like Ricky Gervais (I love his TV work) Previous PostAccording to the October 2 issue of Entertainment Weekly, advertising for The Invention of Lying, the new film from comedian Ricky Gervais, carefully conceals the atheistic subject matter of the movie.Hollywood blunts Gervais’s edgeThis unconvincing, even odious new film is a long way from his best work, says Andrew M BrownThe Invention of Lying transplants Ricky G
