Critic Reviews for The Truth (La vérité). The Truth movie reviews & Metacritic score: Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve) is an aging French movie star who, despite her momentary lapses in memory, remains a. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box.

This very entertaining movie is all about its. In "The Truth," the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda wittily toys with Deneuve's persona, its layers and meanings. (This is his first movie made outside Japan.) She plays Fabienne, a figure not unlike herself, or perhaps more like an admirer's fantasy of a great French star. The parents' guide to what's in this movie.

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The movie is partly about family struggles between a grown daughter and her mother, but the main theme is perhaps represented by the title. Juliette Binoche, Clémentine Grenier and Ethan Hawke in 'The Truth.' Laurent Champoussin/IFC Films. Seeing French divinities Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche together is enough to make this movie a must-see — and that's no lie. As it turns out, "The Truth" is inevitably a bit more complicated. The first movie the Japanese writer-director has made since winning the film world's most prestigious award is also the first that he's ever. (Will I be reviewing Truth on the show this Sunday? Uh, no.) But the movie feels like propaganda.

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On its own terms, Truth works fine. Director and screenwriter James Vanderbilt provides no finesse but keeps the movie humming, and though Moss is notably wasted, Quaid's mixture of easy charm and. Both films seem a tad thin and superficial compared to their directors' more layered work at home.

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