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Non-Fiction

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Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.
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Well-acted and sharply written, Non-Fiction finds writer-director Olivier Assayas working in a comedic vein that channels classic forebears while remaining utterly fresh.

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Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review 10/24/2019
Two hours of French naval-gazing about smoking, drinking, complaining... Go to Full Review
Wendy Ide Observer (UK) 10/20/2019
3/5
On balance, writer and director Assayas just about pulls it off: the film is uneven, certainly, but the fascinating, flawed characters reel us in. Go to Full Review
Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 10/18/2019
4/5
It sounds farcical, but it's also a serious work from the writer-director Olivier Assayas and his key performers that interrogates the nature of literary value today through the words of uncommonly rounded and deeply appealing characters. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 04/28/2024
4/5
…allows the audience to sit back and listen to the conversation, making up our own minds about the people involved. It’s this feel for dinner-party chat that makes Non-Fiction such a pleasure to participate in… Go to Full Review
Violet Lucca Harper's Magazine 08/21/2023
Olivier Assayas’s latest film holds on to the old world while recognizing the new. Go to Full Review
Gisela Savdie El Heraldo 08/10/2023
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The movie takes unexpected turns, and moves between fiction and reality [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Rosana B Feb 23 Se você não está preparado para lidar (terminar ou perdoar) uma traição, não a descubra, simples assim, ou se vingue… Diálogos adoráveis, debates atuais sobre a digitalização dos livros, sobre o direito a privacidade vs direito de publicação sobre suas experiências pessoais (ainda que envolvam terceiros), relações extraconjugais, incrivelmente adoráveis também, e homens nunca cumprem a promessa... Excelentes atuações, como boa fofoqueira, esperava pelas intrigas que não vieram… Adorável... See more 06/05/2020 Non-Fiction is a film I would expect Woody Allen to write and direct. Hopefully he picks up rights to a remake, should there ever be one. This borderline esoteric and most certainly self-important film from Olivier Assayas is without the witty-worded dialogue, psychologically layered characters and cleverly thought-out and executed twists that we can often rely upon Woody Allen to produce. Instead, Assayas heavily occupies his far from engaging film with impenetrable dialogue and self-indulgent characters. See more 05/24/2020 One of those series-of-conversations films that’s a whole genre of French cinema in and of itself, it follows the hypocritical lives of people complaining about their significant others cheating on them while they cheat on their significant others. (The question then, is if revenge is why they’re cheating in the first place?) Why the producers thought that Non-fiction would be a better title for English-language audiences is a mystery. The original Double Lives is more apt, or perhaps one of the jokes of the film, “Auto-fiction”. The acting is terrific with a top-notch cast. See more 05/19/2020 Somehow, a movie that contains several scenes of French artists, actors, writers, and publishers, sitting around a room eating and drinking wine, discussing the future of the literary world did NOT come off as pretentious. The title is a misnomer, as Léonard's (Vincent Macaigne) books are clearly autobiographical, as much as he tries to deny it — he refers to his work as "autofiction," a term I will be stealing. These Parisians, as the stereotypes go, can't seem to keep it in their pants, and are all cheating on their significant others (sometimes with each other's significant others), except for Valérie (Nora Hamzawi), who is cold and unlikeable at first, but by the end is the most endearing character. Valérie also has the chillest reaction to being told she has been cheated on that has ever made its way on screen. This definitely is not the film for everyone, and some of the business conversations concerning hard copies and e-books and the future of publishing seemed a bit dated, like they were having a conversation for 2015 in 2019. I'd like to see a sequel if only to see whether Selena (Juliette Binoche) actually kills Léonard, who is back on his bullshit. See more 02/13/2020 Congrats to the writer, director and actors. They were so good that I did not realize this was a bad movie until it was over. Every French stereotype is confirmed here. They love to eat, drink, talk, talk, talk and have affairs. And all of this with no emotion. And not a single laugh. Uggh, a well-paced story about nothing. See more 10/21/2019 Dobles vidas [2019] See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.
Director
Olivier Assayas
Producer
Charles Gillibert
Screenwriter
Olivier Assayas
Distributor
Sundance Selects
Production Co
Vortex Sutra, Arte, CG Cinéma, Playtime, Axia Films
Rating
R (Some Language|Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
May 3, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 3, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$704.9K
Runtime
1h 48m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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