In 'Non-Fiction,' French Things Considered: Books, Infidelity (And Talking About Books, Infidelity)
Writer-director Olivier Assayas' latest film, set in Paris' literary world, is a "mostly delightful, occasionally exhaustingly word-drunk comedy of manners larded with giddy farce."
In Non-Fiction, five characters in search of renewed authorship sit around in more or less fetching Paris locales, holding forth on the state of literature and publishing in the digital age. Will e-readers, and online chatter kill the book as we know it? Do texting and tweeting count as writing? Can fiction survive the age of confessional memoir? Who owns the written word anyway?
