And those good old themes: identity, reality, illusion, deception, truth, the dynamics of theater, the blurred line between life and art.
Israel said that one of the cast members, Allen Ginsberg, believed that, by making a loosely scripted art film about real people, Frank was after an illusion of truth that would culminate in the higher truth of who they all really were.
Kat Banyard is author of The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today.
Consumer reviews are powerful because, unlike old-style advertising and marketing, they offer the illusion of truth.
The Israelis have the illusion that truth is on their side, but the Koran is the last revelation.
Clearly, Nicholson means to make a point about artifice and actuality, illusion and truth, Hollywood and history.
In 2012 the New York Times ran a piece looking at the popularity of online reviews, which unlike old-style advertising and marketing "offer the illusion of truth".
The insight into the constitution of nature promised in different ways by Aristotle and Descartes was an illusion, the truth being that scientific advance serves only to "stave off our ignorance a little".
The pair had talked for 18 months over developing a piece on feminism and gender equality, inspired by The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today by Kat Banyard.
But if Anne Frank is nothing but a red herring in Joop's attempt to justify his failed life, then "A Hatred for Tulips" is something else: a psychologically astute novel about moral responsibility and the illusion of truth.
