The Truth (Kore-eda)
- measured
- intimate
Neutral, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Our read · The Truth (Kore-eda) (2019) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Truth
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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