Non-Fiction (2018)

R10/11/2018Comedy, Drama, Romance1h 47m
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Overview

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.

Top Billed Cast

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    Guillaume Canet

    Alain

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    Juliette Binoche

    Selena

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    Vincent Macaigne

    Léonard

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    Christa Théret

    Laure

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    Nora Hamzawi

    Valérie

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    Pascal Greggory

    Marc-Antoine

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    Laurent Poitrenaux

    Author, at Alain

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    Sigrid Bouaziz

    Editor

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    Lionel Dray

    Editor

This film starts off quite strongly with an interesting dialogue between the characters "Alain" (Guillaume Canet) and "Selena" (Juliette Binoche) on the future consumption of the written word - long/short form; digital, books, blogs etc - indeed does it have a future a all? Sadly, though, it soon descends into a rather monotonous and predictable exercise in wife swapping, middle-aged crises and never really goes anywhere new. It's wordy and rather flat for most of the last hour, and for me, the end of the rather drearily introspective story of people too obsessed with themselves didn't come a ...