{"id":194957,"date":"2022-05-15T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=194957"},"modified":"2022-05-05T21:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:32:48","slug":"deception-tromperie-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2022\/05\/15\/deception-tromperie-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DECEPTION (TROMPERIE) MOVIE REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DECEPTION (Tromperie)<\/p>\n<p>MUBI<br \/>\nReviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten<br \/>\nDirector: Arnaud Desplechin<br \/>\nScreenwriter: Arnaud Desplechin from the novel by Philip Rotyh<br \/>\nCast: Denis Podalyd\u00e8s, L\u00e9a Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Anouk Grinberg, Madalina Constantin, Miglen Mirtchev<br \/>\nScreened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 5\/6\/22<br \/>\nStreaming on MUBI: May 20, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are people out there, especially students in high school and college forced to read something more than the latest Twitter post, who think that writers must be nerds who sit at their desks all day and do not talk to anybody except for colleagues whose output for literature and theater is something that only they enjoy.  They should read Philip Roth.  Not just read him and think that he\u2019s delving in fantasies that other scribes must enjoy, but also take in Arnaud Desplechin\u2019s \u201cDeception.\u201d They will see that Roth\u2019s novel of the same name is semi-autobiographical; that he really did indulge in affairs with a succession of women who apparently do not think that physical appearance is all-important but who value his empathy, his willingness to listen to their dreams and troubles, and not to impose his own vivid imagination on them.  In other words, he does not mansplain, at least in this examination of his adulterous relationships.  Perhaps his reputation for machismo is on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Roth\u2019s 1990 novel was the first in which the author uses his own name, his own reputation, and as we see in this film, he wrote what he knows.  As played by Denis Podalyd\u00e8s and focusing on his liaisons with the beautiful, well, we do not know her name other than she is listed in the cast as L\u2019amante anglaise, played by L\u00e8a Seydoux.  Warning to those who believe that cinema must concentrate on action while theater is reserved for clever dialogue: \u201cDeception\u201d is unabashedly theatrical, and while the dialogue falls short of Shakespearean, Roth had the ability to charm the fairer sex.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the \u201caction\u201d is in his London apartment, though Desplechin has no need to convince us with a sense of place.  (Even a scene in Prague is conspicuously photoshopped.)  Roth\u2019s unnamed love interest is in her mid-thirties, in a loveless marriage to which she has become accustomed because, as she tells Roth who urges her to have the dignity to break up with her husband, replies, \u201cThere is no dignity without income.\u201d  Roth disagrees, but aren\u2019t people who disparage the importance of money well-heeled themselves, like the popular author?  A few scenes involve Roth\u2019s reenactment of a relationship with Rosalie (Emmanuelle Devos), a former lover who now has cancer, after being told that her CT had shown no problems.<\/p>\n<p>Roth\u2019s concerns with anti-Semitism comes out when he asks his \u201cshicksa\u201d why Brits always mention the word \u201cJew\u201d in the same slight tone that they would talk about shit.  And does his paramour likes penises of her choice better when they are uncircumcised is thrown in as a light touch.  The most involving scene occurs when the theatrical becomes more cinematic; when Roth is on trial in the movie\u2019s fantasy, facing only women in the courtroom, the prosecutor citing him for narcissism and sexism, claiming that he is an abuser of women.  Switching to reality, Roth is trying to convince his wife (Anouk Grinberg) that the notebooks she found and read are nothing more than jottings about his upcoming fiction.  This might serve as the great deception of the film\u2019s title.    <\/p>\n<p>Who might go for the film?  If you are a patron of theater, you are someone who appreciates the fine dialogue on display here.  If you follow the #MeToo movement and want to see why a pretty, educated, intelligent, upper-middle-class woman would go for a guy with a reputation for toxic masculinity, you will take in how he is able to keep her affection, even love, perhaps even because he is unapologetically macho.  If you are a fan of the director, whose \u201cIsmael\u2019s Ghosts\u201d looks at how a filmmaker\u2019s life is affected by the presence of a former lover, this could be for you.  You could not be faulted for being a fan of L\u00e8a Seydoux, marvelous as the title character in Bruno Dumont\u2019s \u201cFrance,\u201d whose career is halted after a car accident.  Are you one of these lucky people?<\/p>\n<p>In French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>102 minutes. \u00a9 2022 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 B<br \/>\nActing \u2013 B+<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013 B<br \/>\nOverall &#8211; B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEPTION (Tromperie) MUBI Reviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Arnaud Desplechin Screenwriter: Arnaud Desplechin from the novel by Philip Rotyh Cast: Denis Podalyd\u00e8s, L\u00e9a Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Anouk Grinberg, Madalina Constantin, Miglen Mirtchev Screened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 5\/6\/22 Streaming on MUBI: May 20, 2022 There are people 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