Non-Fiction (Doubles Vies)

[The film is] fizzy and light, loaded with zingers and also overflowing with a palpable air of melancholy at the slow but steady demise of glorious tactile media.

Non-Fiction is a portrait of the present at once attuned to the zeitgeist and dated, a contradiction that often inhibits the film’s narrative momentum and ends up restricting the scope and impact of its critique.

This is the talkiest and least traditionally “cinematic” of Assayas’ films, and therefore might also seem to be the most disposable, but its apparent ephemerality is often used to underline the staying power of the cinema itself.