Things to Come (2016)
(L'avenir)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 102m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
A 60 year-old philosophy teacher finds herself at a crossroads in life when, her children grown up and her mother going into care, her husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. She will need all her academic training to cope with the dilemma total freedom represents.
Review:
Loosely based on the writer-director's own mother, Huppert's Nathalie is a tower of courage shot through with fragility as she takes stock of her situation. A former pupil is on hand to provide backstory, a pretext for some sort of philosophic discourse, and a subliminal erotic promise. The world these characters inhabit is that of Rohmer and Allen, but the dialogue is less pretentious, and Hansen-Løve adroitly navigates a course between tritely reassuring narrative trajectories and abject pessimism. A quiet, touching film, with unexpected shafts of humour, it ultimately reminds us that even when life's doors all appear to be closing, if you keep moving, another will open.
(L'avenir)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 102m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
A 60 year-old philosophy teacher finds herself at a crossroads in life when, her children grown up and her mother going into care, her husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. She will need all her academic training to cope with the dilemma total freedom represents.
Review:
Loosely based on the writer-director's own mother, Huppert's Nathalie is a tower of courage shot through with fragility as she takes stock of her situation. A former pupil is on hand to provide backstory, a pretext for some sort of philosophic discourse, and a subliminal erotic promise. The world these characters inhabit is that of Rohmer and Allen, but the dialogue is less pretentious, and Hansen-Løve adroitly navigates a course between tritely reassuring narrative trajectories and abject pessimism. A quiet, touching film, with unexpected shafts of humour, it ultimately reminds us that even when life's doors all appear to be closing, if you keep moving, another will open.
(L'avenir)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 102m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
A 60 year-old philosophy teacher finds herself at a crossroads in life when, her children grown up and her mother going into care, her husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. She will need all her academic training to cope with the dilemma total freedom represents.
Review:
Loosely based on the writer-director's own mother, Huppert's Nathalie is a tower of courage shot through with fragility as she takes stock of her situation. A former pupil is on hand to provide backstory, a pretext for some sort of philosophic discourse, and a subliminal erotic promise. The world these characters inhabit is that of Rohmer and Allen, but the dialogue is less pretentious, and Hansen-Løve adroitly navigates a course between tritely reassuring narrative trajectories and abject pessimism. A quiet, touching film, with unexpected shafts of humour, it ultimately reminds us that even when life's doors all appear to be closing, if you keep moving, another will open.