An ageing diva and her screenwriter daughter reunite around a film set in this funny, tender and beautifully observed film from the award-winning director of Shoplifters.
As in any family, animosity exists alongside irrepressible humour, such as a moment in which Fabienne and Lumir pantomime Psycho's knife stabbing and screech the orchestral stabs in unison — a moment just waiting to be GIF'd for French film Twitter.
The strained mother-daughter dynamic also extends to Fabienne's late career, where — in case you haven't been paying enough thematic attention — she's agreed to appear in a film entitled Memories of My Mother, a mid-budget sci-fi in which she's cast opposite one of French cinema's breakout new stars, Manon .
In this film-within-a-film, with its green-screen backdrops doubling as choose-your-own-memory canvasses, Manon plays a thirtysomething woman dispatched to space where she never ages, returning to Earth every seven years to watch as her daughter withers in years before her eyes — a mother-parent reversal that mirrors the superficially switched maturities of Fabienne and Lumir .
Yes, The Truth comes freighted with obvious analogy, and in lesser hands these big life themes could land with a thud. Under the sure touch of Kore-eda, however, the film takes just the right dramatic shape, the director teasing out perfect performances from a cast who never strain to oversell the material.
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