Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth puts spotlight on motherhood, female relationships and the nature of cinema itself.The Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night (Aug 28) with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language debut The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.The generally well-received feature made for a fitting opening film amid the ongoing debate over female representation at the festival, spurred by the fact that just two of the 21 films in competition this year are directed by women.Deneuve plays a steely cinema diva who has put career ahead of friends and family throughout her life, opposite Binoche as her long-suffering,
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