Catherine Deneuve plays a veteran French screen star whose newly published memoir stirs up unresolved feelings in her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest study of familial bonds.
. But it has the playful lightness of touch, the wit and warmth that are an essential part of the Kore-eda signature; it's also an affectionate ode to French cinema itself, which could steer the reach of the IFC release away from this leading director's many existing admirers to a different audience.
The clumsy Bardot mention comes from Fabienne's affable American son-in-law Hank , an actor whose work in television elicits its own eye-rolls. "Her daughter Lumir has come from New York for a rare family visit to Paris with Hank and their bilingual preteen child Charlotte , who is immediately enchanted by the chateau-like aspect of Fabienne's roomy old house, nestled in lush gardens full of trees whose leaves are turning golden in the fall.
Lumir isn't the only one whose feathers are ruffled by the memoir. Fabienne's loyal, long-serving personal assistant Luc is so hurt by having merited not a single line in the book that he abruptly quits just as production on the film-within-the-film is starting. Deneuve again brings tart humor to the evidence that Fabienne has never stopped to consider the life of this man with six grandchildren beyond his service to her.
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