In 2018, Ly Nha Ky has invested in 2 international titles, “Angel Face” and “Non Fiction” (old name: Ebook). With “Angel Face” of director Vanessa Filho got into the Uncertain Regard category, the 2nd most important prize behind the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, “Non Fiction” has recently received the nomination for the Best Movie at Cannes Lions, the most prestigious prize of all in Venice.
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“Non Fiction”, French title: Double Vies, is a story around the mid-life crisis of 2 middle-aged man: editor Alain (Guillaume Canet) and writer Léonard (Vincent Macaigne). They are under great pressure from the more ever challenging world of publishing, while feeling heat from the demands of their wives (Juliette Binoche, Nora Hamzawi). Similarly to many of his previous work, Olivier Assayas wrote the script for “Non Fiction” himself. The movie starred the great French actress, Juliette Binoche. She has risen to the fame with titles such as: Three Colors: Blue (1993), Chocolat (2000) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014).
According to Olivier Assayas’s description, “Non Fiction” will be “a conversation about the modern world”, in the category of comedic drama. Attending the Locarno Movie Festival last year, he had shared a few information about his ongoing project: “I always had an interest in the way that movies can capture the ever fast changing-world. Its motions and changes are one of the most important subject in the film industry and will always be due to the nature of capturing real events of movies.
The movie starred many talented actors, including Oscar winner – Juliette Binoche, the infamous actor from France – Guillaume Canet and Vincent Macaigne, famous actor and writer.
Charles Gillibert, the renowned producer of the French’s film industry, has given many praises to the talented director Olivier Assayas when talking about his work: “He is a flexible film producer, and very bold with his polished and dedicated work which has been shown at many international film festivals in the world. This director has shown that he could do any category, from a horror series such as “Carlos” to dramas like “Sils Maria” and even a fiction like “Personal Shopper”. And this time is “Non Fiction”, a very French comedy with the most sexy and funny dialogues.”
Thanks to her fateful meetings at Cannes Movie Festival in 2017, Ly Nha Ky has had a great relationship with director Olivier Assayas and producer Charles Gillibert. For that, she had meetings, spent a long time co-working with the two film producer as a co-producer of “Non Fiction”. From sources, it was known that the three has had meetings in preparation in Paris last fall and Ly Nha Ky has become the youngest producer for a movie by director Olivier Assayas.
Olivier Assayas is not a distant name to many movie critics when the famous producer has come to name with many varying works from horror to drama and fiction or comedy. At the 2016 Venice Film Festival, the talented director with “Personal Shopper” became a noticeable name at the most prestigious movie stage. The movie has helped Truong Man Ngoc’s ex-husband won the title of “Best Director”. Besides that, the movie also starred Kristen Steward and received many important titles at Golden Palm and Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
Within a short span of 6 months, Ly Nha Ky has made everyone surprised with great leaps. Not only as a profitable investor in many fields, she also has become the Honorary Consul of Romania. Her success in the role of a film producer has created a name for her on an international scale as well as her directions in diplomatic has only showed that previous hurtful rumors have only been beneficial to Ly Nha Ky on her road to success.
