Alain is the editor-in-chief of a century-old publishing house. He does not exclude publishing e-books. He likes to read first drafts on an iPad. He has an extramarital affair with the head of the company's digital department.

Alain's wife, Selena, a TV actress who loves to read books and despises e-books and the Internet, has an affair with Leonard, an author of autobiographical novels.

Leonard's books are only published by Alain's company because he doesn't know any other publishers.

In the movie, some people are surprised that the younger generation uses mobile phones to read, some people publish articles on blogs to attract more readers, some people think that the digitization of text is the Internet revolution, reading equal rights, and some people like audiobooks.

Selena complained that nowadays young people are willing to spend a lot of money to buy a whole set of computers and install the Internet, but they are not willing to spend a small amount of money to buy a book.

Alain's friend said that the e-reader is light and large, and it's like carrying a library with you when you travel.

Selena continues to complain, why do you take a library with you when you travel, isn't it enough to bring a favorite book?

I love how quick and different the conversations Alain has with his writer friends, with his wife, with his lover, with his boss. It offers a glimpse into the face of the French publishing industry. I hope that they will continue to discuss, like like-minded friends with different viewpoints talking around the fire at night, and reluctant to disperse for a long time.

It's just that an extramarital affair inevitably happened, as if to prove that this is a legitimate French movie.

The double-sided marriage life echoes the double-sided reading life, but there are more than two sides of life, and it is more important to enjoy them.

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Hayley 2022-03-10 08:02:08

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Marjolaine 2022-03-15 09:01:11

Olivier Assayas came back to shoot the subject of the French middle class. He should be very familiar with the life and way of thinking of this group. What these people talk about and do all day long is the double-sided life summarized by the title of the film. It stands to reason that the closer you are, the more familiar things should be, the more attractive they should be, but this is not the kind of Woody Allen shooting New York. The theme is important, and how to say it is more important. Watching this group talk about traditional publishing and digitization, this kind of trouble is very similar to marital derailment and emotions between men and women, it's hard to tell everything clearly, pat on pat and prefer the role of a writer, Juliette Binoche and Kat Yom Kanet's drama is gone, but the French-style infidelity he is about to talk about is a commonplace. It is really cool to watch Assayas filming group scenes. He feels very relaxed and comfortable shooting such subjects, but I still prefer to watch him shoot some more exploratory and forceful subjects.
Lucie 2022-04-21 09:03:44

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