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‘Deception’ Review: Arnaud Desplechin Takes on Philip Roth With Unmoored, Unstable But Not Uninteresting Results

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Guy Lodge Film CriticYou have to feel for Léa Seydoux, the star who was slated to be the all-but-official face of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with four vehicles in the official selection.

COVID intervened, preventing her representing any of them in person (as it turned out, none was the greatest of showcases for Seydoux’s talents anyway).

But the one she’s best in was also the lowest-profile.Placed out of competition in the new Premieres sidebar, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Deception” is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of Philip Roth, from his autofictional 1990 novel of the same name.

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