Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. This year, the Directors’ Fortnight is taking it on the road for the first time, presenting locally curated selections of its 2024 program with director Julien Rejl in person.
The Fortnight Extended is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Villa Albertine, Acropolis Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Discount passes for admission to all seven screenings at the Culver Theater can be purchased here.
About the film:
Ale is a film director and Alex is an actor. After fifteen years together, they decide to go their separate ways and begin to act on an old joke made by Ale's father, that separations—and not unions—are cause for celebration. They announce their break-up party to numerous members of friends and family, in a bid to try and convince themselves of the reality of their separation. Coupledom—whether getting together, staying together, making up, or breaking up—is synonymous with filmmaking.
TRT: 114 min
Co-presented by LA OLA
"Trueba has drawn a funny little valentine, shot through by a bright, sharp arrow of feeling." —Jessica Kiang, Variety
"In posing substantive questions about the nature of romance and relationships, it’s smarter than virtually any American studio romantic comedy of recent years." —Adam Solomon, Indiewire
"As delicate as it is profound, as funny as it is serious... A rare miracle of poetics of the everyday, of transcendence within reach, of the most common eroticism." —Luis Martínez, El Mundo
(Available to download after screening date)