The Truth
(La Vérité)

The truth is above all the truth that the ageing film star Fabienne arranges for herself when she publishes her memoirs. This event gives her scriptwriter daughter, based in New York, an opportunity to return to Paris and her childhood home, where she revives some painful subjects never broached. For this first fiction feature made outside of Japan, Kore-eda brings with him some of his favourite motifs, casting Catherine Deneuve in a role that could well be her avatar, decking her out with a daughter played by an actress (Juliette Binoche) who herself has become a star. Kore-eda approaches their conflictual relationship and these artifices with a nicely rounded bite. JB