Non-Fiction
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Non-Fiction (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Non-Fiction
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