Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on an album of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction". "Fiction", starring Selma Blair, is about a group of college students in a creative writing class taugh...
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Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on an album of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction". "Fiction", starring Selma Blair, is about a group of college students in a creative writing class taught by a professor who has affairs with his students. "Non-Fiction", starring Paul Giamatti and John Goodman, is about the filming of a high school student and his family through the college application process.
The original version of the film featured a third story, concerning, among other things, a closeted football player played by actor James van der Beek. After being shown in several film festivals, for unknown reasons the entire story was cut from the final version.
During the sex scene in the "Fiction" part of the film, a red box was...
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