Dakota Johnson has never been to Cannes before. “Somebody told me that people wear gowns and flip-flops and run into hotels,” she laughs, “That sounds like something I’d love to do.” In the past, she’s been more of a Venice person, she says, with The Lost Daughter, Black Mass, A Bigger Splash and Suspiria premiering at the Italian fest, rather than the French one. “I feel like I was branded as Italian cinema-only and I’m so excited,” she says.
Splitsville, screening in Cannes Premiere, is also the first time Johnson’s production company TeaTime Pictures has had a film at Cannes. Directed by Michael Angelo Covino and co-written and produced with his longtime The Climb collaborator Kyle Marvin, Splitsville follows two couples in a friendship group. When Ashley (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce from Carey (Marvin), Carey seeks solace in his happily coupled friends Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino). But when he realizes they are in an open marriage, he crosses a line, and things become more complicated.
