Non-Fiction

Director: Olivier Assayas

2018 / 108min / DCP

Assayas’s spry discourse-driven ensemble piece brings together Guillaume Canet as Alain, the editor of a Parisian publishing house; a splendidly rumpled Vincent Macaigne as Léonard, one of Alain’s stable of writers, long accustomed to drawing on his love affairs for his fiction; Juliette Binoche as Selena, a television actress who’s married to Alain and sleeping with Léonard; and Christa Théret as Alain’s lover and his company’s “head of digital transition,” who urges him towards the discontinuation of publishing physical books. A fluid, witty, and rueful film about lives and industries in crisis, the anxieties of relevance and influence, the interrelation between personal and professional compromise, and the vying impulses of technophobia and technophilia in the digital age.

Distributor: IFC Films