‘Le Faux Soir’ Review: Fake News Tells the Truth in an Earnest, Slow-Paced Period Piece

‘Le Faux Soir’ Review: Fake News Tells the Truth in an Earnest, Slow-Paced Period Piece

“Le Faux Soir” sources its high concept — hijacking state media propaganda’s fake news to tell the truth — from Second World War history. In 1943, disgruntled anarchist and poet Marc Aubrion (Arieh Worthalter) is recruited by the Belgian Resistance, which publishes its own underground newspaper. Marc’s brainwave is to reach outside the bubble of their already-captured readership by printing a fake edition of “Le Soir” — a once-venerable newspape…