Little White Lies

Olivier Assayas

Non-Fiction is a comic broadside aimed at the world of modern literary publishing, written and directed by the always-interesting and provocative French filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Though it may seem a little lighter than recent works like 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria and 2016’s Personal Shopper, there’s a core of seriousness in how he sees the culture industry sliding in an abyss of algorithms and content.

 Assayas: The closest I have come to making a decision based on an algorithm is buying Blu-rays of silent

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