Non-Fiction

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Audience Member 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. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/12/20 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Dobles vidas [2019] Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review dave d I found 'Non-Fiction' insufferable, unfunny, and a near total bore. The performances aren't bad and that's the only reason this film gets the score that it does. What does one learn from Olivier Assayas' latest? The filmmaker needs to make bolder decisions and maybe cast someone more believable in the role of the guy who is overweight, bald, depressed, frumpy and just overall miserable in a role where he has a beautiful powerful wife and a hot actress girlfriend. Couldn't buy it and it took me out of the movie. The film just doesn't work unless except in it's own self-importance. Final Score: 4.0/10 Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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