
Variety
Gets progressively lighter as it moves along, acknowledging the primacy of human interaction (foibles and all) over doctrine.
Full reviewA writer and a publisher struggle to cope with a changing industry in this French comedy from Cannes Best Director winner Olivier Assayas.
"Alain (Guillaume Canet, Love Me If You Dare), a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard (Vincent Macaigne, The Innocents), one of his long-time authors – another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena (Juliette Binoche), Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion." (Venice Film Festival)
Gets progressively lighter as it moves along, acknowledging the primacy of human interaction (foibles and all) over doctrine.
Full reviewIt's only gradually that Assayas allows his self-penned script to open the comedy throttle, overlaying this strata of ideas with cute, smart, sexy comic strokes, without ever quite undermining it.
Full reviewThe frame holds steadier here; it's the churning dialogue - funny, seductive, always carving out fresh tributaries - that propels you forward.
Full reviewThe comic scenes are the most assured, capturing some brilliant reaction shots that really sell the Sisyphean task of being a struggling author.
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