Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors – another work of autofiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion. Alain hires Laure, a young, coolly seductive go-getter, to lead his publishing house into the digital age.
"The digitalisation of our world and its reconfiguration into algorithms is the modern vector of a change that confuses and overwhelms us. Digital economy infringes rules and often laws. Moreover, it questions what seemed solid and granted in society. Yet, it dissolves on mere contact. Non-Fiction does not attempt to analyse the workings of this new economy, but rather to observe how those questions shake us, personally, emotionally, and sometimes humorously." (Olivier Assayas)
Olivier Assayas
Born in 1955 in Paris, son of the famous screenwriter and director Jacques Rémy. After shooting a couple of short films, he worked as member of the editing board of Cahiers du cinéma in the beginning of the 1980s. In 1986 he filmed his first feature, Disorder. He authored several books on film, including Conversations avec Bergman and Hong Kong Cinéma.