Two goddesses of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, join forces with Ethan Hawke in The Truth, the first European film by Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, PSIFF 2019). Deneuve plays legendary stage and screen actress Fabienne, a self-absorbed diva who lives for her art, often at the expense of those closest to her. Binoche is her resentful daughter Lumir, a screenwriter who returns to Paris from the U.S. with her daughter and newly sober actor husband (Hawke) to celebrate the publication of her mother’s memoir, whose contents are rife with omissions and fabrications. Meanwhile, Fabienne is shooting a new movie, a sci-fi fable called Memories of My Mother, whose story uncannily echoes the fraught mother-daughter relationship in her own life. Koreeda, a warm and wise observer, playfully scrambles the boundaries between art and life in his delightful, seriocomic examination of the push and pull of family affections.