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The latest film by Jon\u00e1s Trueba\u2014who visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival with his father Fernando in 2016\u2014begins in the immediate aftermath of a separation. Trueba\u2019s frequent collaborators, both in acting and writing, Itsaso Arana and Vito Sanz, play Ale and Alex, a couple who part ways on such good terms that they decide to throw a party to celebrate their breakup. After all, Ale\u2019s father (the great Fernando Trueba) has always said that one should celebrate breakups rather than marriages. Or has he?<\/span><\/p>\n

When the moment of truth arrives, the fatherly advice turns out to be more about striving to become a better person and seeking happiness\u2014by reading S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard and the cinematic philosopher Stanley Cavell. Film and philosophy, it seems, can help make us better human beings, though fortunately, they don\u2019t eliminate our human clumsiness and hesitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented at the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s <\/span>Quinzaine des Cin\u00e9astes<\/span><\/i>, the film is deliberately redundant and sympathetically timeless. Its impossibly comfortable ex-lovers process their split by recounting the breakup and their celebratory party in everyday conversations with friends, family, and colleagues\u2014as if social media didn\u2019t exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the Scandinavian master of divorce cinema, Ingmar Bergman, is mentioned, Trueba\u2019s emotional tone leans more toward the summery, bittersweet sensibility of \u00c9ric Rohmer than Bergman\u2019s stark bitterness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tytti Rantanen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest film by Jon\u00e1s Trueba\u2014who visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival with his father Fernando in 2016\u2014begins in the immediate aftermath of a separation. 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