Non-Fiction

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Non-Fiction

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2019,

1h 48m,

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Romance

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Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.

Critics Consensus

Well-acted and sharply written, Non-Fiction finds writer-director Olivier Assayas working in a comedic vein that channels classic forebears while remaining utterly fresh.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

Oct 24, 2019

Two hours of French naval-gazing about smoking, drinking, complaining...

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 20, 2019

3/5

On balance, writer and director Assayas just about pulls it off: the film is uneven, certainly, but the fascinating, flawed characters reel us in.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Oct 18, 2019

4/5

It sounds farcical, but it's also a serious work from the writer-director Olivier Assayas and his key performers that interrogates the nature of literary value today through the words of uncommonly rounded and deeply appealing characters.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Apr 28, 2024

4/5

…allows the audience to sit back and listen to the conversation, making up our own minds about the people involved. It’s this feel for dinner-party chat that makes Non-Fiction such a pleasure to participate in…

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Violet Lucca

Harper's Magazine

Aug 21, 2023

Olivier Assayas’s latest film holds on to the old world while recognizing the new.

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Gisela Savdie

El Heraldo

Aug 10, 2023

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The movie takes unexpected turns, and moves between fiction and reality [Full review in Spanish]

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Harry S

Oct 26, 2018

Made up mostly of discursive conversations, often cutting into each other, on how the world of publishing has adapted to modern trends and technology and the morals of using real people as inspiration for fiction, Olivier Assayas satirical 'comedy' is, beneath all that, a simple tale of infidelities during mid-life crisis that we've seen before in better early years Woody Allen films. Between two couples, we have most of the subject-matters Assayas wants to tackle covered: a publisher who is married to an actress of a popular cop show and a writer whose auto-fiction are lightly disguised accounts of his dalliances who's going out with an aide of a socialist politician. Not only are their various indiscretions handled in a very French and nonchalant manner, but the constant debating and conversing over food and wine is also something Assayas claims can only happen in a French film. As a non-French speaker, keeping up with the subtitles in this very talkative film is exhausting and may have affected my enjoyment of the film but the smashing together of those two core elements does not produce anything revealing or fresh in either the marital dramedy or the relentless (pseudo-) intellectual debates. Despite good performances by a cast led by Guillaume Canet and Juilette Binoche, it comes across instead as draggy, gimmicky and a tad naval-gazing.

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Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Producer: Charles Gillibert
Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas
Distributor: Sundance Selects
Production Co: Vortex Sutra, Arte, CG Cinéma, Playtime, Axia Films
Rating: R (Some Language|Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 3, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $704.9K
Runtime: 1h 48m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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