“September Without Waiting”, the new film by Jonas Trueba, celebrates the end of a couple

The film “September Without Waiting” by the Spaniard Jonas Trueba was released in cinemas on Wednesday. The story of a couple who separate, but who want to celebrate this event, which upsets their loved ones.

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Actor Vito Sanz, left, and actress Itsaso Arana, right, in the film "September without waiting"by Jonas Trueba. (Los Ilusos films)

In Jonas Trueba’s films, there is no conflict. An admirer of François Truffaut, to whom he pays homage here, the young Spanish director believes, like his illustrious elder, that cinema is more beautiful than life. However, life, real life, irrigates his work and that of his band. His partner, Itsaso Arana, plays Ale, who has been in a relationship with Alex for 15 years. They both live in the cinema and shoot a film, which is the film itself, a total mise en abyme.

Without conflict, therefore, the couple decides to separate and celebrate it, which perplexes those around them. From these small, banal things, Jonas Trueba makes a very gentle film. “We can also make films with light subjects, he explains. We don’t have to have big themes, big stories. As a spectator, I suffer a little that cinema is so excessive. This film is a rebellious, provocative gesture, we start with a joke, to make a romantic comedy, universal, between a man and a woman.”

It’s the end of summer in Madrid, Alex and Ale are preparing this separation party, trying to stay light, when the fear of emptiness catches up with them. What would be depressing or violent elsewhere is here terribly human and subtle. From the acting to the finesse of the editing, this cinema asserts its style, that of a group of friends, who find themselves from film to film.

“We are a cinema family, a chosen family, like a theatre troupe, says Itsaso Arana. The film evokes loyalty, how over time, we resist or not, and our way of doing things is linked to these questions. Often, we think of giving up everything, the cinema, our couple, our friends, our city. This film evokes all that and I think we come out of this crisis with optimism.”


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