Film reviews: Non Fiction and Dark Lies the Island

Non Fiction is the kind of film where you’re never more than a few minutes from a scene in a bustling bistro and everybody, eventually, ends up in bed with everyone else

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Macaigne have a lot of fun in the Parisian publishing world of Non-Fiction

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Non-Fiction: Directed by Olivier Assayas, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:****

Dark Lies the Island: Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, Nationwide, 16,Rating:*

Writer and director Olivier Assayas follows his almost-silent ghost story Personal Shopper (in which star Kristen Stewart might have uttered 20 lines of dialogue) with Non-Fiction, in which nobody shuts up even for a minute.

This is the kind of film where groups of elegant women discuss politics and philosophy while balancing plates ...