Review of The Truth

"The Truth", when compared to Koreeda's homegrown filmography, can easily be seen as more superficial or less profound but, even if under some aspects that's true ("Shoplifters" is undoubtedly a greater movie), sometimes a simpler piece is exactly what a filmography needs. In this movie we can see most of Koreeda's typical themes such as the relationships within a family, the absence of a figure inside of it, the trauma that can born and live in it, treated with an (apparent) simplicity, yes but even with a charming sobriety that makes everything flow with an irresistible fluidity. A fluidity that slowly but steadily plunges the viewer into the relationship, poised between reality and acting, of a mother and a daughter, both superbly interpreted by Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, that is never banal, always credible and deeply felt and more complex than it seems. "The Truth" may be simple and thin but it's one of those movies so enjoyable when watching that when they end they make you want to watch another movie and another one and another one, they make you appreciate cinema so much you can't not love them.