Dakota Johnson’s Take on Modern Romance: Comedy, Drama, and Thrills

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 DaughterBlack MassA 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.

Dakota Johnson is Making Her Way in Hollywood

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.

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