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Shoplifters - Official Trailer
Stream films for free: https://www.magnoliaselects.com/
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
In Theaters November 23rd.
http://www.shopliftersfilm.com/
published: 10 Oct 2018
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Monster Trailer #1 (2023)
Check out the new trailer for Monster starring Soya Kurokawa!
► Buy Tickets to Monster: https://www.fandango.com/monster-2023-233726/movie-overview?cmp=Indie_YouTube_Desc
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US Release Date: November 22, 2023
Starring: Eita Nagayama, Sakura Andô, Soya Kurokawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Synopsis: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
► Learn more: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/monster_2023?cmp=Indie_You...
published: 10 Oct 2023
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After the Storm - a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda - Official U.S. Trailer
Drawing deeper than ever on his personal memories and experiences, award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Our Little Sister, Still Walking, Nobody Knows) returns with a powerful story of family ties and expectations in AFTER THE STORM. When a typhoon strikes, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a failed writer and third-rate detective, unexpectedly spends the night together with his son, ex-wife (Yoko Maki) and aging mother (legendary actress Kirin Kiki), allowing the estranged family the opportunity to believe in each other once again. Hailed as the celebrated director’s “most profound” (The Film Stage) and “beautifully balanced” (The Hollywood Reporter) work, AFTER THE STORM is, in Kore-eda’s own words, “the film that is most colored by what I am.”
published: 05 Jan 2017
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Cannes 2023: Exclusive Interview with KORE-EDA HIROKAZU
Monster is one of the films that is getting huge awards buzz at Cannes. Golden Globe-nominated Kore-eda Hirokazu won a Palme d'Or for Shoplifters a few years ago. Itsuko Hirai sat down with the director for this exclusive interview.
#cannes #cannes2023 #cannes76 #cannesfilmfestival #cannesfilmfestival2023 #film #redcarpet #worldpremiere #premiere #goldenglobes #exclusive #interview #monster #koreeda #director
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published: 25 May 2023
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How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections
How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections. This video looks at the screenwriting and visual style of Hirokazu Koreeda, director of Still Walking, Shoplifters, Like Father Like Son, Nobody Knows, and many other films. In this video, I analyze how Koreeda builds strong emotional connections that transcend the screen and leave a lasting impression on viewers.
*** Also, I totally butchered the name of the very kind Linda Ehrlich in this video. My apologies to her for this oversight. You can buy her excellent book on Hirokazu Koreeda (which helped me immensely in the making of this video) at the following link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0838ZV82N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 ***
published: 30 Jul 2020
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The world according to Koreeda
How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life: a video essay on the films of Koreeda Hirokazu by kogonada for Sight & Sound.
Read kogonada's accompanying essay: http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/video-world-according-koreeda
published: 26 Oct 2016
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Hirokazu Kore-eda | BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture Series
Hirokazu Kore-eda has moved audiences around the world with his stories about various configurations of families in films including Our Little Sister (2015), Like Father, Like Son (2013) and his Palme d'Or award-winning film Shoplifters (2018). In this lecture he retraces his career and his influences.
Sponsored by The JJ Charitable Trust.
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published: 26 Jan 2023
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BROKER - Official Trailer
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for SHOPLIFTERS, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with BROKER, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (PARASITE). The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.
published: 01 Dec 2022
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MONSTER at TIFF 2023 | Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda
The director of Monster at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival during its North American premiere.
Acclaimed Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to his homeland with a powerful yet delicate story of love and humanity, a moral tale about school bullying, scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 7 to 17, 2023. For more, visit http://tiff.net."
For more about the Toronto International Film Festival and our year-round programming TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net.
Subscribe to watch more TIFF Originals. New videos every Friday. https://www.youtube.com/tiff
published: 16 Sep 2023
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THE TRUTH - Official HD Trailer - A film by Kore-eda Hirokazu
http://www.palacefilms.com.au/TheTruth © Palace Films 2019
After the global success of the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters, master auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu’s wry and charming new dramedy THE TRUTH pairs beloved Academy Award nominees Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche for the first time, as a celebrated actress and her estranged daughter whose tentative reunion offers an opportunity to either repair or irrevocably fracture their relationship.
Fabienne (Deneuve) is a star; a much loved, larger-than-life icon of French cinema. When she publishes her memoirs, her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Binoche) returns to Paris from New York for the occasion, with her struggling actor husband Hank (Ethan Hawke) and their inquisitive young daughter Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier) in tow. It c...
published: 24 Oct 2019
2:17
Shoplifters - Official Trailer
Stream films for free: https://www.magnoliaselects.com/
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for...
Stream films for free: https://www.magnoliaselects.com/
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
In Theaters November 23rd.
http://www.shopliftersfilm.com/
https://wn.com/Shoplifters_Official_Trailer
Stream films for free: https://www.magnoliaselects.com/
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
In Theaters November 23rd.
http://www.shopliftersfilm.com/
- published: 10 Oct 2018
- views: 1846272
2:35
Monster Trailer #1 (2023)
Check out the new trailer for Monster starring Soya Kurokawa!
► Buy Tickets to Monster: https://www.fandango.com/monster-2023-233726/movie-overview?cmp=Indie_Y...
Check out the new trailer for Monster starring Soya Kurokawa!
► Buy Tickets to Monster: https://www.fandango.com/monster-2023-233726/movie-overview?cmp=Indie_YouTube_Desc
Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the best indie trailers: http://bit.ly/2Ewwuuf
US Release Date: November 22, 2023
Starring: Eita Nagayama, Sakura Andô, Soya Kurokawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Synopsis: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
► Learn more: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/monster_2023?cmp=Indie_YouTube_Desc
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#Monster
https://wn.com/Monster_Trailer_1_(2023)
Check out the new trailer for Monster starring Soya Kurokawa!
► Buy Tickets to Monster: https://www.fandango.com/monster-2023-233726/movie-overview?cmp=Indie_YouTube_Desc
Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the best indie trailers: http://bit.ly/2Ewwuuf
US Release Date: November 22, 2023
Starring: Eita Nagayama, Sakura Andô, Soya Kurokawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Synopsis: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
► Learn more: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/monster_2023?cmp=Indie_YouTube_Desc
Watch More:
► Rotten Tomatoes Originals: http://bit.ly/2D3sipV
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► New TV This Week: https://bit.ly/3Or3I2w
Rotten Tomatoes INDIE is the destination for all indie, foreign, and documentary film enthusiasts. Here you'll discover the newest indie movies from your favorite and up-and-coming filmmakers.
#Monster
- published: 10 Oct 2023
- views: 695563
1:58
After the Storm - a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda - Official U.S. Trailer
Drawing deeper than ever on his personal memories and experiences, award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Our Little Sister, Still Walking, Nobody Knows) re...
Drawing deeper than ever on his personal memories and experiences, award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Our Little Sister, Still Walking, Nobody Knows) returns with a powerful story of family ties and expectations in AFTER THE STORM. When a typhoon strikes, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a failed writer and third-rate detective, unexpectedly spends the night together with his son, ex-wife (Yoko Maki) and aging mother (legendary actress Kirin Kiki), allowing the estranged family the opportunity to believe in each other once again. Hailed as the celebrated director’s “most profound” (The Film Stage) and “beautifully balanced” (The Hollywood Reporter) work, AFTER THE STORM is, in Kore-eda’s own words, “the film that is most colored by what I am.”
https://wn.com/After_The_Storm_A_Film_By_Hirokazu_Kore_Eda_Official_U.S._Trailer
Drawing deeper than ever on his personal memories and experiences, award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Our Little Sister, Still Walking, Nobody Knows) returns with a powerful story of family ties and expectations in AFTER THE STORM. When a typhoon strikes, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a failed writer and third-rate detective, unexpectedly spends the night together with his son, ex-wife (Yoko Maki) and aging mother (legendary actress Kirin Kiki), allowing the estranged family the opportunity to believe in each other once again. Hailed as the celebrated director’s “most profound” (The Film Stage) and “beautifully balanced” (The Hollywood Reporter) work, AFTER THE STORM is, in Kore-eda’s own words, “the film that is most colored by what I am.”
- published: 05 Jan 2017
- views: 125517
3:56
Cannes 2023: Exclusive Interview with KORE-EDA HIROKAZU
Monster is one of the films that is getting huge awards buzz at Cannes. Golden Globe-nominated Kore-eda Hirokazu won a Palme d'Or for Shoplifters a few years ag...
Monster is one of the films that is getting huge awards buzz at Cannes. Golden Globe-nominated Kore-eda Hirokazu won a Palme d'Or for Shoplifters a few years ago. Itsuko Hirai sat down with the director for this exclusive interview.
#cannes #cannes2023 #cannes76 #cannesfilmfestival #cannesfilmfestival2023 #film #redcarpet #worldpremiere #premiere #goldenglobes #exclusive #interview #monster #koreeda #director
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https://wn.com/Cannes_2023_Exclusive_Interview_With_Kore_Eda_Hirokazu
Monster is one of the films that is getting huge awards buzz at Cannes. Golden Globe-nominated Kore-eda Hirokazu won a Palme d'Or for Shoplifters a few years ago. Itsuko Hirai sat down with the director for this exclusive interview.
#cannes #cannes2023 #cannes76 #cannesfilmfestival #cannesfilmfestival2023 #film #redcarpet #worldpremiere #premiere #goldenglobes #exclusive #interview #monster #koreeda #director
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- published: 25 May 2023
- views: 4217
17:25
How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections
How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections. This video looks at the screenwriting and visual style of Hirokazu Koreeda, director of Still Walking, Shopl...
How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections. This video looks at the screenwriting and visual style of Hirokazu Koreeda, director of Still Walking, Shoplifters, Like Father Like Son, Nobody Knows, and many other films. In this video, I analyze how Koreeda builds strong emotional connections that transcend the screen and leave a lasting impression on viewers.
*** Also, I totally butchered the name of the very kind Linda Ehrlich in this video. My apologies to her for this oversight. You can buy her excellent book on Hirokazu Koreeda (which helped me immensely in the making of this video) at the following link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0838ZV82N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 ***
https://wn.com/How_Hirokazu_Koreeda_Creates_Emotional_Connections
How Hirokazu Koreeda Creates Emotional Connections. This video looks at the screenwriting and visual style of Hirokazu Koreeda, director of Still Walking, Shoplifters, Like Father Like Son, Nobody Knows, and many other films. In this video, I analyze how Koreeda builds strong emotional connections that transcend the screen and leave a lasting impression on viewers.
*** Also, I totally butchered the name of the very kind Linda Ehrlich in this video. My apologies to her for this oversight. You can buy her excellent book on Hirokazu Koreeda (which helped me immensely in the making of this video) at the following link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0838ZV82N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 ***
- published: 30 Jul 2020
- views: 14868
9:02
The world according to Koreeda
How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life: a video essay on the films of Koreeda Hirokazu by kogonada for Sight & Sound.
Read kogonada's ac...
How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life: a video essay on the films of Koreeda Hirokazu by kogonada for Sight & Sound.
Read kogonada's accompanying essay: http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/video-world-according-koreeda
https://wn.com/The_World_According_To_Koreeda
How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life: a video essay on the films of Koreeda Hirokazu by kogonada for Sight & Sound.
Read kogonada's accompanying essay: http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/video-world-according-koreeda
- published: 26 Oct 2016
- views: 59535
24:29
Hirokazu Kore-eda | BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture Series
Hirokazu Kore-eda has moved audiences around the world with his stories about various configurations of families in films including Our Little Sister (2015), Li...
Hirokazu Kore-eda has moved audiences around the world with his stories about various configurations of families in films including Our Little Sister (2015), Like Father, Like Son (2013) and his Palme d'Or award-winning film Shoplifters (2018). In this lecture he retraces his career and his influences.
Sponsored by The JJ Charitable Trust.
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Hirokazu Kore-eda has moved audiences around the world with his stories about various configurations of families in films including Our Little Sister (2015), Like Father, Like Son (2013) and his Palme d'Or award-winning film Shoplifters (2018). In this lecture he retraces his career and his influences.
Sponsored by The JJ Charitable Trust.
Subscribe to BAFTA ⏩ https://youtube.com/user/BAFTAonline
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- published: 26 Jan 2023
- views: 5794
2:00
BROKER - Official Trailer
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for SHOPLIFTERS, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with BROKER, starring Cannes Best Actor win...
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for SHOPLIFTERS, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with BROKER, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (PARASITE). The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.
https://wn.com/Broker_Official_Trailer
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for SHOPLIFTERS, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with BROKER, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (PARASITE). The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.
- published: 01 Dec 2022
- views: 372183
23:09
MONSTER at TIFF 2023 | Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda
The director of Monster at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival during its North American premiere.
Acclaimed Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns...
The director of Monster at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival during its North American premiere.
Acclaimed Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to his homeland with a powerful yet delicate story of love and humanity, a moral tale about school bullying, scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 7 to 17, 2023. For more, visit http://tiff.net."
For more about the Toronto International Film Festival and our year-round programming TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net.
Subscribe to watch more TIFF Originals. New videos every Friday. https://www.youtube.com/tiff
https://wn.com/Monster_At_Tiff_2023_|_Q_A_With_Hirokazu_Kore_Eda
The director of Monster at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival during its North American premiere.
Acclaimed Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to his homeland with a powerful yet delicate story of love and humanity, a moral tale about school bullying, scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 7 to 17, 2023. For more, visit http://tiff.net."
For more about the Toronto International Film Festival and our year-round programming TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net.
Subscribe to watch more TIFF Originals. New videos every Friday. https://www.youtube.com/tiff
- published: 16 Sep 2023
- views: 14714
2:06
THE TRUTH - Official HD Trailer - A film by Kore-eda Hirokazu
http://www.palacefilms.com.au/TheTruth © Palace Films 2019
After the global success of the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters, master auteur Kore-eda Hirok...
http://www.palacefilms.com.au/TheTruth © Palace Films 2019
After the global success of the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters, master auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu’s wry and charming new dramedy THE TRUTH pairs beloved Academy Award nominees Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche for the first time, as a celebrated actress and her estranged daughter whose tentative reunion offers an opportunity to either repair or irrevocably fracture their relationship.
Fabienne (Deneuve) is a star; a much loved, larger-than-life icon of French cinema. When she publishes her memoirs, her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Binoche) returns to Paris from New York for the occasion, with her struggling actor husband Hank (Ethan Hawke) and their inquisitive young daughter Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier) in tow. It comes as no surprise to Lumir that everything in her grand childhood home still revolves around her mother, and as she begins to read Fabienne’s book it becomes clear it’s riddled with omissions and embellishments – especially with regard to her relationship with the great artistic rival of her past, Sarah Mondavan.
Fabienne herself has no time for explanations and small talk; she’s preparing for her next film, a science-fiction drama, cast alongside a rising new talent (Manon Clavel) touted as ‘the next Sarah Mondavan’. When Fabienne’s long-suffering assistant unexpectedly quits, she and Lumir are reluctantly forced into an awkward working relationship, with Lumir revisiting the same film studios where she spent countless hours as a child. As the on and off-set worlds begin to amusingly – and movingly – intertwine, suppressed emotions can no longer be kept in check…
With a keen knowledge and love of French cinema, Kore-eda lends this hugely enjoyable film the observant, tender eye audiences have come to cherish. This is Deneuve’s most delectable role in years, and she is magnificent; delivering frequent bon mots with insouciance and aplomb. Binoche too is outstanding as the daughter who has had to grow up in the shadow of stardom, and tries to control her world by writing it into being.
Warmly compared to Olivier Assayas’ exquisite Summer Hours by multiple critics upon its Venice premiere, THE TRUTH is a very special cinema experience: a gentle and moving exploration of reality and fiction, family, performance, and the great spectacle of life. It’s a love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere
https://wn.com/The_Truth_Official_Hd_Trailer_A_Film_By_Kore_Eda_Hirokazu
http://www.palacefilms.com.au/TheTruth © Palace Films 2019
After the global success of the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters, master auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu’s wry and charming new dramedy THE TRUTH pairs beloved Academy Award nominees Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche for the first time, as a celebrated actress and her estranged daughter whose tentative reunion offers an opportunity to either repair or irrevocably fracture their relationship.
Fabienne (Deneuve) is a star; a much loved, larger-than-life icon of French cinema. When she publishes her memoirs, her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Binoche) returns to Paris from New York for the occasion, with her struggling actor husband Hank (Ethan Hawke) and their inquisitive young daughter Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier) in tow. It comes as no surprise to Lumir that everything in her grand childhood home still revolves around her mother, and as she begins to read Fabienne’s book it becomes clear it’s riddled with omissions and embellishments – especially with regard to her relationship with the great artistic rival of her past, Sarah Mondavan.
Fabienne herself has no time for explanations and small talk; she’s preparing for her next film, a science-fiction drama, cast alongside a rising new talent (Manon Clavel) touted as ‘the next Sarah Mondavan’. When Fabienne’s long-suffering assistant unexpectedly quits, she and Lumir are reluctantly forced into an awkward working relationship, with Lumir revisiting the same film studios where she spent countless hours as a child. As the on and off-set worlds begin to amusingly – and movingly – intertwine, suppressed emotions can no longer be kept in check…
With a keen knowledge and love of French cinema, Kore-eda lends this hugely enjoyable film the observant, tender eye audiences have come to cherish. This is Deneuve’s most delectable role in years, and she is magnificent; delivering frequent bon mots with insouciance and aplomb. Binoche too is outstanding as the daughter who has had to grow up in the shadow of stardom, and tries to control her world by writing it into being.
Warmly compared to Olivier Assayas’ exquisite Summer Hours by multiple critics upon its Venice premiere, THE TRUTH is a very special cinema experience: a gentle and moving exploration of reality and fiction, family, performance, and the great spectacle of life. It’s a love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere
- published: 24 Oct 2019
- views: 27468