- Title: Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda gets his French leading ladies
- Date: 2nd October 2019
- Summary: VENICE, ITALY (RECENT - AUGUST 28, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** DIRECTOR HIROKAZU KORE-EDA JOINING ACTRESSES JULIETTE BINOCHE AND CATHERINE DENEUVE ON THE RED CARPET AT THE OPENING OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL / VARIOUS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS VENICE, ITALY (RECENT - AUGUST 29, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS, JULIETTE BINOCHE, SAYING: "But what I love about my character is that she's able to love her mother despite her flaws despite her lies despite that is so moving (starts to cry)." REPORTER: "That's the beauty of cinema." BINOCHE: "That's the beauty of life." REPORTER: "Absolutely, absolutely."
- Embargoed: 16th October 2019 09:03
- Keywords: Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda's "La verite" The Truth Venice Film Festival Catherine Deneuve Juliette Binoche
- Location: VENICE, ITALY / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: VENICE, ITALY / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZEKTHP
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda found the pieces magically falling into place for his film, "The Truth" ("La Vérité"), even though he had to revive a long-dormant script, get renowned actress Catherine Deneuve on board and overcome a language barrier to pull it off.
French actress Juliette Binoche had been urging Kore-eda, who won the Palme d'Or for "Shoplifters" at last year's Cannes film festival, to make a film with her for several years but nothing had got off the ground.
Inspiration finally struck for Kore-eda on a flight back from Paris: the film, based on a theatre script he began in 2003, would be set in France with Deneuve and Binoche as mother and daughter.
"The Truth," which hits Japanese cinemas on Oct. 11 after it premiered at the Venice film festival, features Fabienne, who has just published her memoirs and is hosting her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Binoche) and TV actor son-in-law Hank (Ethan Hawke) on a visit from New York.
But painful memories and tensions between mother and daughter resurface when Fabienne's book reveals more lies than the truth mentioned in its title, "La Verite".
Kore-eda had feared Deneuve would turn down the role but sensed her enthusiasm at a meeting where he showed her bits of the still incomplete screenplay.
Binoche said she was thrilled to finally work with Kore-eda.
She told Reuters recently that he was the "Anton Chekhov of nowadays" for being subtle in addressing "real themes in families that hurt so bad."
Still to be resolved after the casting, however, was the matter of filming in another country and in a foreign language for the first time.
Kore-eda wrote the screenplay in Japanese and then worked on the French translation with Lea Le Dimna, his Japanese-French interpreter for the past five years. He had complete faith she would nail the nuances.
Kore-eda said he had other projects in development but after five films in five years, it was time to ease the pace and hold off on any decisions for six months.
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