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Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’ Fiddles with Seriousness
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Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’ Fiddles with Seriousness

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 / 30 April 2019

In Olivier Assayas' speedy, slightly wan dispatch from salon society, Non-Fiction (Doubles vie), Parisians have badly concealed affairs and argue loudly but inconclusively about books and society.

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Literature? Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Literature? Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’

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 / 29 March 2019

By satirizing the French literary intelligentsia, Assayas' Non-Fiction (Doubles vie) chronicles the hypocrisies of the modern psyche without attaching itself to any particular worldview.