Sunday, 14 July 2024

La Vérité / The Truth (2019 Kore-eda Hirokazu & scr)

The truth is faced not just by mother and daughter but also by husband, ex, manager etc. Catherine Deneuve is brilliant as the cold, rude, bitchy, unsupportive, passive-aggressive mother, Binoche is her usual wonderful self. With Ethan Hawke, Clémentine Grenier, Manon Clavel, Alain Libolt.

Deneuve's largely fictional autobiography is out and she's appearing in some strange film, in which she feels the younger actress is a rival. Based on a short story by Ken Liu.

It's a good film but somehow it felt like it went on for hours. Maybe the fact the film-within-a-film is unintelligible doesn't help.



Hirokazu made the BAFTA nominated Shoplifters

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