SEPTEMBRE SANS ATTENDRE

"Sundays carry moments where certitudes break, the way every accomplishment conceals finitude. Jonas Trueba’s Volveréis – another exceptional discovery at this Viennale – is completely built upon the inversion of one of the happiest feasts, like the wedding. Ale and Alex have decided to separate, and come up with an odd idea: why not to celebrate the separation with a proper feast, with friends, music and a separation cake? The most interesting aspect of the film is less the story and more the explicit and assumed redundancy through which the story and the film launch and relaunch the idea itself. We cannot escape feeling it as an indirect strategy for the separating couple to remain together in “performing” the separation. The redundancy of the film – which is also full of delightful details indeed, mostly in the description of the couple’s friends’ reactions to the announcement of their idea, making the film also a subtle anthropological study – is then not a fault but its virtue, the virtue of being able to make us feel the performative contradiction of separating together. Circularity is no less than the central element of never-ending Sundays." — Giuseppe Di Salvatore, A CINEMATIC PLEA FOR SUNDAY, Filmexplorer