Non-Fiction

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

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

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.

Non-Fiction feels breezy, but this is a film in which, on multiple fronts, appearances don't tell the whole story.

[Olivier] Assayas's innate interest in character prevents it from being dry or dusty.

A meal made up of nothing but appetisers.

…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…

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

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

It questions, in the key of social criticism and long talks, the traps of the digital age, but its sophisticated side loses the effect of irony in a second half marked by redundancy and a excessive verbal transparency. [Full review in Spanish]