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.

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]

Assayas' characters, who have spent the entire film looking for some constant to hold onto in their lives, come to the realization that the only thing that's really constant in our lives is change. And by the end, so do we.