NZIFF - Non-Fiction
9 Herschell Street, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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The murky line between reality and fiction goes under the microscope – and the sheets – in Olivier Assayas’s chatty, up-to-the minute treatment of the French literary world, with Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet.
Long-time festival favourite Olivier Assayas (Cold Water, Summer Hours) takes on the contemporary publishing industry in this free-flowing and quintessential French comedy, which puts a new spin on an age-old question: where is the line between truth and fiction? In this affectionate and knowing portrait of the Parisian intellectual class, publishers and authors debate the literary merits of the tweet, consider the future of the e-book, and – naturally – sleep with people they shouldn’t.
The latter is particularly ripe material for struggling mid-career writer Léonard (a gloriously unkempt Vincent Macaigne), but his publisher Alain (Guillaume Canet) is tired of Léonard’s auto-fiction. Meanwhile, Léonard’s unwilling subjects begin to assert their own autonomy.
Tickets are available online through Ticketek, from the front desk at MTG or the box office at the Napier Municipal Theatre. Door sales will also be available at the MTG Century Theatre one hour prior to the screening.
Rating: M Unrestricted. Recommended more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over.
Presented by: New Zealand International Film Festival.
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