What if there was no perfect love? Discover free exchange, a humorous comedy that dynames an ideal partner aspiration

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A crazy “anti-romantic” comedy that sounds right

When Ashley asks her for a divorce, Kerry is comforted with Julie and Paul with her friends. He finds that for his friends, the recipe for happiness is a free marriage. But Kerry then crosses the limit that bothered their relationships and chaos in their lives …

On this simple synopsis, a free exchange, which is designed for a global review at the Cannes Film Festival, is more like a family drama than a comedy, but it would be a lining of Michael Angel in Cobovo and Kyle Marvin’s filmmaker, this tandem of comedy directors, who had already distinguished them. “” “We started thinking about these people who are looking for a better understanding of romantic relationships, ”he told them before they burned their intentions. We have found that the strategies on which people work on their relationships were real comedy situations. “

Indeed, free exchange will be attacked as universal as it is slippery: romantic relationships in the era of individual freedom, meeting applications, and seductive games are constantly repeated. We follow two couples – Julie and Paul (Dakota Johnson and Director himself!) And Ashley and Kerry (Adria Arjona and Kyle MarvinAlso Co -Director) – Those who try as much as possible to work out love, desire, devotion and freedom, often embarrassing …

However, the film sharply spreads nails from a romantic comedy whose relationships are sometimes idealized and ends with a happy ending, inevitable: “In fact, these are situations that are absurd, but the result is somewhat more realistic for our characters than the most realistic of traditional romantic comedies, where everything is written in advance: the film is quite anti-romantic comedy“Explains Kovino.

A pleasure of contagious to the inconvenience of humor

Which also distinguishes the film from traditional romantic comedies, is the art of its masterful discomfort, or American “Cancer”: the characters sink into impossible conversations, absurd lies, comics, repeats and gestures where the inconvenience becomes an inexhaustible source of humor.

Kyle Marvin defines: “If there is a satirical dimension, it is to entertain the great melodies that we give to love and the couple. Because we have the feeling that our ideas are much more sophisticated than others or generations that preceded …»

Two directors were pushing us to laugh not against their characters, but with them, with the most raw insecurity. We have fun with their inconvenience because it drives us in our own moments of loneliness, nonsense, sentimental confusion. This is this laugh that makes us feel good!

First of all, the film deviation of caricatures: it does not judge the followers of free relationships, or those who dream of a combined and monogamous couple. In contrast, he observes the confusion of modern love with humor and lightness. This is because the film has no claim to make a decision between “good” and “bad” ways that it speaks to the largest number.

Lucid (but never cynical) look at love

At a time when love speeches change between complete offenders and an obsessed aspiration of a perfect relationship, the free exchange in the footsteps is a much more human and ordinary way: getting imperfections. The film shows that each of the interconnection models – be it free, exclusive, indefinite or transient – has its joy, its frustrations, its hypocrisy, and that there is no miracle user textbook or the right diagram for everyone.

Instead of judging or moralizing, the director chooses a favorable observation. He makes films for young lost adults, sometimes funny, often with a touch that they are looking for as they can love and love. And in this raw sincerity that the viewer finds intimate echo in his own essays and mistakes, and that under his air as a light comedy, the film is deeply talking about each.

Lastly, which is particularly dare to exchange a free exchange, it is that he dares to bare a taboo, which is still well leading in our modern societies: this love choice that does not fit into boxes – free relationship, polyamor, rigid devotion, and that these options often remain stigmatized because they leave the dominant model. With them without caricature and activism, the film is questioning our own judgment and causing a more open reflection of what everyone is looking for or escaping in a relationship.

By mixing humor, discomfort and emotional accuracy, free exchange will give us a mirror, both severely and gentle in our loving ways. Funny, in a new and necessary discretion, relationships are now found in the building.