It is with Yann Dedet, the great French film editor known for his work with Truffaut and Pialat that the Belgian Joachim Lafosse has chosen to edit his fifth film, L’Économie du couple (After Love), the chronicle of a divorce and its emotional and economic repercussions on the couple and their children. The film shows that the interaction, sometimes fluid and sometimes tense, between two collaborators depends on an “economy of the couple”, whose intimacy is bared to the outside world when the critical step of a first screening for the producers arrives.
Editing
Watching editors edit an edit about editing. Deliciously meta.
Acting
Two legends of French cinema being gloriously, authentically cranky.
Director
Katharina Wartena
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yann Dedet edited over 40 films including Truffaut's final work. Lafosse knew exactly whose ego he was poking.
The film's title is a French idiom meaning 'keeping one's distance'—ironically impossible in a cramped editing suite.
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