'The Truth' turns a family drama into a French screen-legend stand-off—thank god for Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche. Our review
hits the fan since Fabienne’s portrait of herself as maternalism incarnate hardly squares with the way Lumir remembers her lonely childhood. Fabienne brushes off the criticism. To her, the truth is irrelevant to printing the legend she has nourished for years. In private, she bluntly admits: “I’d prefer to have been a bad mother and a bad friend but a good actress. You won’t forgive me, but the public will.
Kore-eda busies up his film with subplots, including one about Sarah Mondavan, a deceased actress who mothered Lumir and rivaled Fabienne’s rep as France’s top leading lady. There’s also a sci-fi film that Fabienne is making with Manon , a young threat to Fabienne’s throne and a starlet so luminous that critics are comparing her to Sarah and not to Fabienne, who is playing her daughter.
And that’s the trouble. The real story here isn’t watching Fabienne work out her mother issues through a film role. Nor is it the men in Fabienne’s life: the ex-husband who shows up uninvited; the new lover who flatters her when needed; the longtime personal assistant who feels betrayed by not meriting a mention in Fabienne’s book. It’s the essential conflict between mother and daughter that bringsinto Kore-eda territory, where life is always a delicate balance.
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