The Truth's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
Kore-eda?s first film made outside his native Japan, it?s a fascinating exploration of the fallibility of memory and of how the truths we tell ourselves so frequently outweigh an empirical certainty.
El Mundo
Raised as a naturalistic tragicomedy, it works as a precision contraption at varied and stimulating levels [...] Kore-eda's sensitivity to blend in with seemingly alien cultures and keep talking about the same.
Indiewire
'The Truth' lacks the tear-jerking dramatic oomph that swells beneath so many of Kore-eda?s best films, but it gingerly eases forward with the kind of sensitivity and emotional intelligence that only a master storyteller can bring to the table.
El Periódico
An absolutely personal work that, of course, has an unmistakably European sensibility. [...] cultural distancing has allowed [the director] to expand his narrative expressiveness and delve into issues hitherto unpublished in his cinema. That said: a little miracle.
Fotogramas
In his leap from the portrait of Japanese marginal life to the Parisian bourgeois reality, Kore-eda manages to keep almost intact the expressive force of his naturalistic cinema, although here the staging seems somewhat more corseted than usual in him.
The Hollywood Reporter
It has the playful lightness of touch, the wit and warmth that are an essential part of the Kore-eda signature; it's also an affectionate ode to French cinema itself.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote