2019 ‘La Vérité’ Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
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ethan hawke looking confused for the entire movie while everyone speaks french is me at cannes
Filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu once predicted that his Palme d’Or-winning “Shoplifters” would come to represent a major turning point in his career — the end of one phase, and the beginning of another. As it turns out, “The Truth” is inevitably a bit more complicated.
The first movie the Japanese writer-director has made since winning the film world’s most prestigious award is also the first that he’s ever shot in another tongue or country, and that fact alone is enough to make Kore-eda’s latest feel like an outlier in any number of obvious ways; a foreign organ transplanted into an otherwise cohesive body of work. On the other hand, this wise and diaphanous little drama finds Kore-eda once again exploring his…
Much smaller scale on it’s surface compared to what I’m used to with Kore-eda but definitely packs a punch underneath. Maybe too underneath for my taste though. Could be that I’m just burnt out and slightly sleep deprived at this point but it lost my interest in a few scenes. Still tho, everything to love about his filmmaking is very present here.
A universe in which a chain-smoking Catherine Deneuve constantly bickers with Juliette Binoche, carelessly undermines the acting talents of Ethan Hawke and has the power to turn old men into turtles, is a universe I want to live in.
Child: "Is that the truth?"
Juliette Binoche in The Truth: "ahahahhhhh eeehehhhhh aahhhhh ehhhhhhh *winks* ehhhhhh
AFI 2019: film #2
“you can’t trust memory”
this specific kind of french movie is never really for me, but i did enjoy this the entire run time
tiff #8
it’s extremely interesting to me that kor-eda made a french film despite not speaking the language and it’s really cool that he pulled it off — and all with the exact 3 leads he originally envisioned for the film. it’s actually funny just how very french it really feels through its many nuances. this was clearly a very fun passion project that kor-eda wanted to pursue after coming down from the heaviness of shoplifters, and it works. i’m starting to think ethan hawke asks his agent to find roles where he can play the s/o of a french woman
When famed actress Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve) publishes her memoir, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) comes to visit, uncomfortable with how the facts have been changed, causing the two women to confront their strained relationship, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s drama co-starring Ethan Hawke, Manon Clavel, Clémentine Grenier and Christian Crahay.
This was the first Kore-eda film I’ve seen, and he really manages to craft an intimate, quietly compelling character study whilst avoiding many of the cliches associated with stories about family tension. Though the story is relatively straightforward, it avoids easy sentimentality or strict character arcs, instead letting the flawed characters interact in a believable and effective way.
A lot of this is down to Deneuve’s superb central performance, which anchors the…
AFI Fest - Film #1
"Memories come and go."
It's such a pleasure for me to see French films and Hirokazu Koreeda is a master director.
The story follows Fabienne Dangeville (Catherine Deneuve), an actress who has had an amazing career. With the release of her book, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) visits her. Imagine Koreeda using Binoche as a character that cannot act. LOL!!!
Ethan Hawke, plays Hank, Lumir's husband: a second rate American TV actor. His animated interactions with his daughter and other children are the best parts.
Ludivine Sagnier plays an actress playing the role of "Amy" at 38 years old. Catherine Deneuve also plays "Amy" at 73 years old. There are two other actresses that play…
This was honestly hilarious. Catherine Deneuve reciting a paragraph of dialogue in french to Ethan Hawke and he’s like idk wtf she’s saying and someone mentioning Brigitte Bardot and Catherine going 😒🤢 queen of comedy
The Truth is fine. It's not a bad film. That's about it, really. As soon as the setup and character dynamics are established, everything plays out as expected. Hirokazu Kore-eda still cares about family, but this one just seems rather uninteresting. I like nothing movies about grand ideas. This is more just a nothing movie. At best, we're dealing with various versions of truth, from reality to a book to a film-within-a-film. We also have various mothers and daughters, as well as fathers and lovers. But everything fits together into just a standard arthouse movie, yet filled with plot threads that go nowhere and those that do wrap up provide little reward. Ultimately The Truth is too reliant on us…
