Knowing that the director I like very much about this movie is Hirokazu Edema, so I went to see it as soon as it was released on the first day. Only three people watched this time. . After watching, I hope I don’t know who the director is, so that I can objectively evaluate this French film made by a Japanese director. And when I watched it, I didn't see any trace of Yuka Kee.
The whole play is peaceful and relaxed. Looking at the title "The Truth", I thought the plot would be terribly bloody, with various reversals and climaxes, but in fact there is none, a very homely drama. The actors are very relaxed. Although the character is strong, there is no such expression of hysteria at all. The audience watched a relaxed and happy, very delicious family meal. But there is nothing that can be recalled when I think of it. I don't know what the director's intention is to make this film? It's like a family life of broken thoughts, which passed away without getting any inspiration, and it didn't touch the soul. So after reading it, I was quite disappointed. After all, the works of Hirokazu Edema in the past are very memorable, and the enlightenment they give people is also profound.
Actress Catherine Deneuve is really amazing! First of all, she is a very glamorous actor. Although she is no longer young (just checked, she is 76 years old! OMG), but she has a strong vitality and vitality in her body, and she deserves to be a French national treasure actor. . She played the role of a very famous actress Fabienne. Although Fabienne is ill, vain and narcissistic, and doesn't care about the people around him, the performance by Catherine Deneuve is not annoying, and even a little like it. Fabienne's pursuit of acting is burdened by idols. "I would rather be a bad mother, a bad friend, but also a great actress." It seems that she is willing to sacrifice everything for her acting career, but she often doesn't even memorize her lines when preparing for filming. Catherine Deneuve's performance is really vivid, and effortlessly, it's a matter of course. A good actor will become like this after years of polishing, and the precision of the performance can be in his own control. A kind of beauty exudes from the inside to the outside.
In contrast, Juliette Binoche's performance is really not that smart. But it is very intellectual and beautiful, especially when she wears glasses. As a daughter in the play, Lumir does not have a sharp break-like conflict in the mother-daughter relationship. Although the strangeness of each other has been since childhood, Lumir still has to go to his mother's studio to help, I think it is already very difficult. When on the set, Lumir, as a bystander, was both worried, proud, and touched by the performance of his mother and opponent. These subtle emotional changes, Juliette Binoche realized very well.
Sarah is a key figure in the play. Although he has passed away, he has never appeared in the movie. Sarah and Fabienne are close friends, but Fabienne slept with the director in order to grab the scene, but she and Sarah did not break with each other. Sarah was chatting with Fabienne the day before her last death. Sarah and Lumir are very close, and Lumir regards her as a mother's substitute. Manon and Sarah, who are now making movies with Fabienne, are very similar in looks, temperament and voice. Fabienne often talked about this with Lumir, feeling that Sarah is the point where they connect together, so that they have more common topics and common memories.
The play in the play is a clever setting. Not only because Fabienne is an actor, but Lumir is a screenwriter, who is a colleague. Through mutual understanding of filming, we can achieve further emotional communication and gradually bring each other closer to each other from the heart. Fabienne played the role of her old daughter in the play, which contrasted with her role in life. In the play, her role becomes a daughter who is alienated and does not receive much maternal love. Lumir, who has been watching her mother's performance by the side, also slowly discovered the connection between herself and her mother in the process. .
The whole movie is a pure French movie in my eyes, and I didn't see the Japanese style of shooting and storytelling. From the perspective of Shige Hirokazu, I think this work is considered a success. He walked out of his comfort zone and organized a filming team across borders to tell the story of a Western family. The story itself is still what he is good at. It talks about the relationship between family members and uses very daily expressions. The story itself is complete, and there is no dissatisfaction with the expression, everything can be regarded as a good work. But from the audience's point of view, I think it is far from enough. Not impressed from the heart, this has nothing to do with whether it is French or Japanese.
Compared with the French film "Someone, Somewhere" I watched a few days ago, Hirokazu Edema has a higher maturity in filming, and he looks like an experienced director. But like "Someone, Somewhere", the movie didn't leave anything behind, although it was still in the show when it was watched.
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