Too Beautiful To Lie

Too Beautiful to Lie (请别相信她, 2023) is a Chinese romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. A con-woman poses as the girlfriend of a village chief's son. The family is thrilled to meet her. The son is not. She now has 106 minutes to decide whether the lie is worth keeping.

Director Yang Yuanhan remakes the 2004 Korean comedy of the same name, transplanting the scheme into a contemporary Chinese setting with Zhang Ruonan and Ma Li — one of the sharpest comic performers in Chinese cinema — in the lead. The film works better than the premise suggests because the tone stays warm: this is less about the hustle and more about what happens when the act stops feeling like one. Stream Too Beautiful to Lie (2023) online on iFILM.