By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Christa Théret | Guillaume Canet | Juliette Binoche | Nora Hamzawi | Vincent Macaigne
Original language title: Doubles vies
Country: france
Year: 2019
Running time: 108
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7250056/reference
Michael says: ”
NON-FICTION is the latest film by Olivier Assayas, starring the ubiquitous, yet always reliable Juliette Binoche; a talky, smart, amusing story of a publisher, an author and their wives set in the changing world of publishing. Much of the dialog, and there’s a lot of it, revolves around the transition from physical books to e-books, something I have dealt with quite a bit in my library world, and it’s pretty up-to-date and accurate. There’s even an amusing sidebar about public libraries at one point, that is a bit more pessimistic that I see things, but was certainly not completely off the mark. Of course, all this intelligent, thought-provoking conversation conceals the fact that everyone is basically having an affair with someone else in the cast. It’s all oh-so French, you know?