The Truth

Any film built around a skirmish of wits between two world-class performers is “a hard gift to turn down,” said in AVClub.com. Catherine Deneuve plays an aging French movie star and Juliette Binoche her daughter who is visiting from the U.S. in the latest domestic dramedy from Japan’s Kore-eda Hirokazu, creator of 2018’s acclaimed Shoplifters. “Like so much of Kore-eda’s work,” The Truth is “fundamentally minor,” as its wistful piano score telegraphs. “But it’s also witty and sometimes touching.” The role of haughty grande dame of cinema proves “a comically good fit for Deneuve,” said

in The New Yorker. Her Fabienne has always been an indifferent mother and is now promoting a memoir full of pretty lies that

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