The Great Pretender
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 11m
Directed by Nathan Silver | 71 mins | 2018
When a French theater director (Maëlle Poesy-Guichard) comes to New York to direct an autobiographical play about her disastrous last relationship, a chain reaction of romantic escapades is set off by her two stars (Esther Garrel and Keith Poulson). Each of the five chapters in Silver’s tag-teaming jaunt orbits a different character.
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