Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

The story focuses on an aging novelist -- once well-regarded, now barely remembered -- working on what he knows will be his final book. When he's contacted by an ambitious student hoping to use him as the subject of her Master's thesis, he initially declines but then gets drawn in by her enthusiasm and, probably, the idea of being portrayed as a literary god by her hand.

I guess I'm getting to that point where "honest" is more important than almost any other criteria when it comes to the arts. This was quiet and true -- I simply loved it.

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