20/04/2016 - After Private Lessons in the Fortnight in 2008 and Loving Without Reason in Un Certain Regard in 2012, the director will be in attendance on the Croisette once again with L’Economie du Couple

We had suspected that he would already be present on the Croisette last year with The White Knights [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile], which was accepted for the first competitive edition of the Toronto Film Festival, but now Joachim Lafosse is back in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival with a new film, L’Economie du Couple [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile], which was shot last summer. This is not the first time that Lafosse has been selected at Cannes, as his fourth movie, Private Lessons [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jacques-Henri Bronckart
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile], was already accepted into the same section in 2008, and the next film after that, Loving Without Reason [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile], was selected in the official selection, within the Un Certain Regard section in 2012. 

Shot in Brussels, L’Economie du Couple boasts a cast including Bérénice Bejo, Cédric Kahn, Marthe Keller, Jade and Margaux Soentjens. After ten years of living together, Marie and Thierry split up. She was the one who originally bought the flat they live in with their two children, but it was him who carried out the renovations on it. With Thierry unable to afford another place to live, they are forced to continue living together. On the day of reckoning, each tries to hold on to what they think they contributed to their life together.

L’Economie du Couple is another co-production between Versus Production and Les Films du Worso, with backing from the CCA, Wallimage and the Tax Shelter. It was co-produced by RTBF and BeTv-Voo, and it will be distributed in Benelux by O’Brother Distribution and in France by Le Pacte, which is also in charge of its international sales. 

Versus is also making a comeback to the Fortnight, as it had already taken part with Private Lessons, as well as with Eldorado [+see also:
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film profile] by Bouli Lanners in 2008, Illegal [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Olivier Masset-Depasse
film profile] by Olivier Masset-Depasse in 2010 and The Giants [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Bouli Lanners
film profile] in 2011. 

Moreover, we should highlight that Belgian co-productions are really on a roll. Besides the films produced by Les Films du Fleuve and Entre Chien et Loup that have been selected in the official selection (read the article), we also find Raw [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Julia Ducournau
film profile] by Julia Ducournau popping up in the Critics’ Week (co-produced by Frakas, shot and post-produced in Belgium), in addition to Slack Bay [+see also:
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trailer
Q&A: Bruno Dumont
film profile] by Bruno Dumont and Personal Shopper [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Artemio Benki
interview: Olivier Assayas
film profile] by Olivier Assayas, which were co-produced by Scope Pictures, and which will be taking part in the Official Competition. 

Lastly, to round off the Belgian presence at Cannes, we should point out Nicolas Rincón Gille’ selection in the Cinéfondation Atelier.

(Translated from French)