CATHERINE DENEUVE JULIETTE BINOCHE ETHAN HAWKE the truth a film by KORE-EDA HIROKAZU 3B PRODUCTIONS, BUN-BUKU and M.I MOVIES present CATHERINE DENEUVE JULIETTE BINOCHE ETHAN HAWKE the truth (la vérité) a film by KORE-EDA HIROKAZU 107 MIN – FRANCE – 2019 – 1.85 – 5.1 INTERNATIONAL PR MANLIN STERNER [email protected] mobile: +46 76 376 9933 SYNOPSIS Fabienne is a star – a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed. photo © Rinko Kawauchi © Rinko photo DIRECTOR’S NOTE If I dared to take on the challenge I wanted the story to take place I wanted a film that was not only THE TRUTH is the result of all the of shooting a first film abroad – in in autumn because I wanted to serious but also light-hearted, where efforts and the confidence that my a language that’s not my own and superimpose what the heroine drama and comedy coexist, as actors and crew put in me; it was with a totally French crew – it’s only goes through at the end of her life they do in real life. I hope that the made by the best of professionals, because I was lucky enough to meet onto the landscapes of Paris at the chemistry between the actors and the beginning with my director of actors and collaborators who wanted end of summer. I hope people will amused gaze of the child succeed in photography Éric Gautier. to make a film with me. see how the greens of the garden setting the right tone. I hope the pleasure I experienced on change subtly as winter approaches, Juliette Binoche created the initial And finally.... set will be reflected on screen and accompanying the relationship spark. We’d already known each that viewers will leave with a little between mother and daughter and I can’t finish these few words other for a while when she came to taste of happiness. colouring this moment of their lives. without mentioning Catherine Japan in 2011 and suggested that, Deneuve. Never complaining about This hope is made stronger by the one day, we should do something During the shoot, Ethan Hawke told the incessant changes in the script, loss of the Japanese actress Kirin together. me: “The important thing when she always managed to keep the Kiki, who passed away last year, and making a film is not to speak the Her suggestion was the starting joy of acting intact. Having my film who touched me deeply as a director same language but to share the same point for this project. So I’d like to in her filmography – which is as and also as a man and a friend. vision of the film you want to make.” begin by expressing my respect and prestigious as the history of French These words of support helped me to What makes a family a family? Truth gratitude for her boldness. cinema itself – is for me a source of stay true without losing confidence or lies? And how would you choose both pride and anxiety. At the heart of the screenplay is a in myself. between a cruel truth and a kind play script I’d begun in 2003 about On the set, Catherine was cheerful, lie? These are the questions I never Thanks to Ethan, the young a night in the dressing room of a adorable, deliciously mischievous and stopped asking myself throughout Clémentine (Grenier), who’d never theatre actress coming to the end of the whole crew fell under her spell. the making of this film. I hope been on a film set, naturally found her career. I finally transformed this everyone who sees it will take the her place, revealing a personality and If a fresh breeze of cheerfulness play into a film script that tells the opportunity to find his or her own a presence full of life. We directed and freedom blows through THE story of a cinema actress and her answers. Clementine together: Ethan in front TRUTH, even though it takes place daughter who gave up her dreams of of the camera and I behind it. mainly inside a family home, it’s becoming an actress. certainly because Catherine and As children often do in my films, the - Kore-Eda Hirokazu During this rewriting, I asked Juliette’s charm and kindness little girl watches philosophically the Catherine Deneuve and Juliette irradiate the film from beginning confrontation between these slightly Binoche several times about what to end. overwhelmed men and these women acting truly is and it was their words trapped in their past. that nourished the script and brought it to life. KORE-EDA HIROKAZU – BIOGRAPHY Kore-Eda was born in 1962 in Film Festival. In 2012, Kore-eda made Tokyo, Japan. After graduating his TV series directorial debut with from Waseda University in 1987, Going Home. LIKE FATHER, LIKE he joined TV Man Union where SON (2013), winner of the Jury Prize he directed several prize-winning at the Cannes Film Festival, broke documentaries. In 2014, he launched the box office records of his previous his production company BUN- films in many territories. In 2015, BUKU. In 1995, his directorial OUR LITTLE SISTER premiered debut MABOROSI won the 52nd In Competition at the Cannes Film Venice International Film Festival’s Festival, screened at San Sebastian Golden Osella. Three years later, and received four Awards of the AFTER LIFE (1998), brought Japanese Academy including Best Kore-Eda international acclaim. Film and Best Director. In 2016, In 2001, DISTANCE was selected AFTER THE STORM premiered In Competition at the Cannes in Un Certain Regard at the 69th Film Festival. Cannes Film Festival. THE THIRD MURDER premiered In Competition In 2004, Yagira Yuya, the young at the 74th Venice International Film star of NOBODY KNOWS, received Festival in 2017 and won six Awards the Best Actor Award at Cannes. In of the Japanese Academy. In 2018 2006, HANA was presented in San SHOPLIFTERS won the Palme d’Or Sebastian and in Toronto. In 2008, at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and Kore-eda presented the family drama broke the box office records of his STILL WALKING, which reflected previous films. In 2019, his first his own personal experiences, and feature shot outside Japan, THE received high praise from around the TRUTH (LA VÉRITÉ), starring world. In 2009, AIR DOLL made its French film legends Catherine world premiere in Un Certain Regard Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, will at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and open the Official Competition at the was widely praised. In 2011, I WISH Venice International Film Festival. won the Best Screenplay Award at the 59th San Sebastian International KORE-EDA HIROKAZU – CATHERINE DENEUVE – FILMOGRAPHY SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR 2019 THE TRUTH 2011 I WISH 2019 LA VÉRITÉ (THE TRUTH) 2014 L'HOMME QU'ON AIMAIT (LA VÉRITÉ) Toronto Film Festival 2011 – KORE-EDA Hirokazu TROP (IN THE NAME Venice International Film San Sebastian International OF MY DAUGHTER) Festival 2019 Film Festival 2011 2019 FÊTE DE FAMILLE –André TÉCHINÉ (Opening Film) (HAPPY BIRTHDAY) 2009 AIR DOLL – Cédric KAHN DANS LA COUR 2018 SHOPLIFTERS Un Certain Regard, (IN THE COURTYARD) Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2009 L’ADIEU À LA NUIT – Pierre SALVADORI Cannes Film Festival 2018 Toronto Film Festival 2009 (FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT) 2013 ELLE S'EN VA 2017 THE THIRD MURDER 2008 STILL WALKING – André TÉCHINÉ (ON MY WAY) Venice International Toronto Film Festival 2008 – Emmanuelle BERCOT Film Festival 2017 San Sebastian International 2017 LA DERNIÈRE FOLIE Toronto Film Festival 2017 Film Festival 2008 DE CLAIRE DARLING 2010 LES BIENS-AIMÉS (CLAIRE DARLING) (BELOVED) 2016 AFTER THE STORM 2006 HANA – Julie BERTUCCELLI – Christophe HONORÉ Un Certain Regard, San Sebastian International Cannes Film Festival 2016 Film Festival SAGE FEMME LES YEUX DE SA MÈRE Toronto Film Festival 2016 – Martin PROVOST (HIS MOTHER’S EYES) 2004 NOBODY KNOWS – Thierry KLIFA 2015 OUR LITTLE SISTER Official Competition, 2016 TOUT NOUS SÉPARE Official Competition, Cannes Film Festival 2004 (ALL THAT DIVIDES US) 2009 POTICHE Cannes Film Festival 2015 Toronto Film Festival 2004 – Thierry KLIFA – François OZON Toronto Film Festival 2015 San Sebastian International 2001 DISTANCE 2015 LA TÊTE HAUTE 2007 UN CONTE DE NOËL Film Festival 2015 Official Competition, (STANDING TALL) (A CHRISTMAS TALE) Cannes Film Festival 2001 – Emmanuelle BERCOT – Arnaud DESPLECHIN 2013 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Jury Prize, 1998 AFTER LIFE LE TOUT NOUVEAU 2005 LE CONCILE DE PIERRE Cannes Film Festival 2013 San Sebastian International TESTAMENT (THE BRAND (THE STONE COUNCIL) Toronto Film Festival 2013 Film Festival NEW TESTAMENT) – Guillaume NICLOUX San Sebastian International – Jaco VAN DORMAEL 1999 MABOROSI PALAIS ROYAL! 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