(2024, France, 117')
For the first time in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Emmanuel Mouret crafts a comedy that inherits the expressive codes of the great French tradition of Marivaux and De Laclos while also drawing inspiration from Woody Allen and Éric Rohmer. The story focuses on three women and their romantic relationships, narrated in their intertwining and complexity with a tone of apparent lightness. Mouret’s three friends “make mistakes, start over, and continue making mistakes,” while defending their ideas and standing by their choices.
French director, screenwriter, and actor Emmanuel Mouret (Marseille, 1970) is the author of melancholic and bittersweet comedies that revolve around the complexity of contemporary romantic relationships. In 2006, he participated in Cannes for the first time with Change of Address, and in 2007 he presented A Kiss Please at the Venice Days, a film he wrote, directed, and starred in. In 2021, The Things We Say, The Things We Do won the Lumière Award for Best Film, awarded by the international press, in addition to winning the award for Best French Film from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
