Review of The Truth

The Truth (2019)
7/10
What a duet! Deneuve and Binoche
24 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Er daughter Charlotte played so delightfully by Clémentine Grenier when she tells her Grandmother of her desire to be a great actress like Fabienne. This young actress had never set foot on a movie set before yet gives one of the most natural child performances I've seen in a while I hope we see more of Clémentine in future movies. In the most significant male role in the film Ethan Hawke as the not so famous actor but loving husband and father is also impressive especially at the family dinner scene when Fabienne keeps filling his glass full of red wine after his voluntary abstinence.

While subtitles have improved greatly I felt some of the subtlety of the original language must suffer in any Foreign Language film. I remember many years ago at a Cinema in Paris watching the Graduate and Howard's End dubbed in French but with English subtitles and some of the translation was ludicrous but International films in their original language are so worth seeing .Even if we lose a little of the intended script in subtitles. I'm sure if you understood Korean fluently that the English subtitles in the film "Parasite" would have some strange interpretations.
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