Non-Fiction (2018)
(Doubles vies)
Country: FR
Technical: col 108m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
An author given to recycling his autobiography through his fiction produces a new novel in which his mistress recognises herself and his wife recognises that he has a mistress, but which his publisher, who is his mistress's husband, and who is also having an affair with a digital publishing marketeer, does not want to publish because it is just more of the same.
Review:
Assayas uses a modern sex comedy (as in, everyone is very tolerant of everyone else's infidelity) to explore the direction of publishing in the 21st century: will it survive in its traditional form or will its value be debased by digital publishing, the critical fraternity bypassed by algorithmic marketing? It's a scintillating script which does not let up for a moment, and takes self-reflexivity to an art form, but ends on a conversation about pregnancy that can only be there to expose the extreme solipsism of its main character.
(Doubles vies)
Country: FR
Technical: col 108m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
An author given to recycling his autobiography through his fiction produces a new novel in which his mistress recognises herself and his wife recognises that he has a mistress, but which his publisher, who is his mistress's husband, and who is also having an affair with a digital publishing marketeer, does not want to publish because it is just more of the same.
Review:
Assayas uses a modern sex comedy (as in, everyone is very tolerant of everyone else's infidelity) to explore the direction of publishing in the 21st century: will it survive in its traditional form or will its value be debased by digital publishing, the critical fraternity bypassed by algorithmic marketing? It's a scintillating script which does not let up for a moment, and takes self-reflexivity to an art form, but ends on a conversation about pregnancy that can only be there to expose the extreme solipsism of its main character.
(Doubles vies)
Country: FR
Technical: col 108m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
An author given to recycling his autobiography through his fiction produces a new novel in which his mistress recognises herself and his wife recognises that he has a mistress, but which his publisher, who is his mistress's husband, and who is also having an affair with a digital publishing marketeer, does not want to publish because it is just more of the same.
Review:
Assayas uses a modern sex comedy (as in, everyone is very tolerant of everyone else's infidelity) to explore the direction of publishing in the 21st century: will it survive in its traditional form or will its value be debased by digital publishing, the critical fraternity bypassed by algorithmic marketing? It's a scintillating script which does not let up for a moment, and takes self-reflexivity to an art form, but ends on a conversation about pregnancy that can only be there to expose the extreme solipsism of its main character.