In the opening scene of Auction, a French drama set in the lofty world of the fine art market, auctioneer André Masson (Alex Lutz) visits the home of a potential seller of a desired artwork. This client — bitter, vindictive to her own family and imperturbably racist — is nobody’s ideal partner, but business is business. And she’s credited with one of the film’s more memorable … [Read more...]
‘Non-Fiction’: What we talk (and talk and talk) about
When is there too much of a good thing? This question looms over Olivier Assayas’s exhaustively intelligent Non-Fiction, a zeitgeist-targeted ensemble comedy stuffed with so many statements about the Way We Live Now that we can hardly be expected to process them all. Assayas’ script is like a torrent of Snapchat missives that disappear into the nether, to be replaced by the … [Read more...]