The Truth
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Arguably the most interesting
filmmaker to emerge in the last
couple of decades, Hirokazu Ko-
re-eda has worked at a prolific
rate, giving us roughly a movie
a year, most of which have met
with critical acclaim. With his lat-
est, The Truth, Kore-eda leaves
his native Japan to try his hand
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by Eric Hillis
at European cinema, and it’s a
remarkably effortless transition.
If you didn’t know this French set
drama was written and directed
by Kore-eda, you might easily
believe it a work of a local film-
maker like Mikhaël Hers, André
Téchiné or Robert Guediguian,
so readily has Kore-eda adapted
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