Her latest film things to come is a moving account of a philosophy teacher at a crossroads in her life. The film charts the tragic path of parisian philosophy professor. French, english, german english subtitles france 2016 102 min. Winner of the best director award at the 2016 berlin international film festival, the acclaimed new film from mia hansen love eden is. Things to come discover the best in independent, foreign. Hupperts character in things to come, mia hansenloves new movie. Philosophy consoles in things to come the boston globe. Mia hansenloves fifth feature looks at a fiftysomething woman struggling to deal with the future after her husband leaves her for another woman. Winner of the best director award at the 2016 berlin international film festival, the acclaimed.
It was both a specific and universal exploration of ambition and failure, exploring a persistent refusal. Things to come is a less ambitious work than the decadesspanning eden or father of my children, which swung on a seemingly outofnowhere narrative turn. With isabelle huppert, andre marcon, roman kolinka, edith scob. Mia hansenlove talks about how eric rohmers the green ray inspires her. Its a portrait of a middleaged woman facing challenges that force her to reevaluate her identity and selfworth. Nathalie is the oldest protagonist hansen love has ever had, and her storyif hansen loves arcs can be called thatis that of a lifelong process of adaptation.
French director mia hansenloves 2014 edm drama eden is based on her brothers rise and fall as a parisian dj. Her gentle followup, things to come, is distinctly more domestic, but equally moving. As mia hansenlove was basing the film on her mothers life she asked her mother to approve the script before she began filming. At the beginning of mia hansenloves wry, cerebral, and moving things to come, philosophy teacher nathalie isabelle huppert jots in her notebook, can one put oneself in the place of. Now, in this berlin silver bear winner from mia hansenlove writerdirector of such intimate films as father of my children and goodbye first. It stars isabelle huppert as middleaged philosophy professor nathalie chazeaux, whose life is going through a series of separations things to come received critical acclaim and was selected to compete for the golden bear at the 66th berlin international film festival. Things to come mia hansenlove and isabelle huppert prove a dream partnership in the directors gorgeous, heartcradling postdivorce drama. Isabelle huppert on paul verhoevens elle and mia hansenloves things to come hupperts elle character is halfway between being a man and woman, actress says at. Writerdirector mia hansenlove things to come travels abroad in this tale of a former french hostage finding himself in goa. In less than ten years she has proven a unique voice in the french cinema landscape, bringing her distinctive, moody fluidity and approach that often evoke nouvelle vague masters eric rohmer and philippe garrel. The last question, with its echo of aristotle, might be of interest to nathalie, ms. As with her movies, and things to come in particular, you get the feeling when talking to hansenlove that whats expressed is only a fraction. Winner of the silver bear at the last berlinale, things to come is french director mia hansenloves fifth film since 2007. That line, in mia hansenloves things to come, is spoken by an editor at a publishing house, explaining to.
Hansenlove doesnt go in for much of that, though when her camera does move, and when music does come onto the soundtrack, its never a minor or meaningless development. Its about a woman in crisis, the quest for artistic fulfilment and the freedom that comes from an acceptance of loss. With nothing to hold her back, nathalie sets out to define this new phase of her life and to rediscover herself. The title things to come may conjure in the viewer many conflicting feelings. A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her. Things to come by mia hansenlove for les films du losange.
Isabelle huppert is at it again in things to come the. Mia hansen love born 5 february 1981 is a french film director, screenwriter, and former actress. Winner of the best director award at the 2016 berlin international film festival. Lavenir is a 2016 frenchgerman drama film written and directed by mia hansen love. By nick pinkerton in the novemberdecember 2016 issue. Mia hansenlove, francegermany, sundance selects, opening december 2. Lavenir is a 2016 frenchgerman drama film written and directed by mia hansenlove. She came back strong with things to come, and now theres maya, almost certainly destined to be the most poorlyreceived of her films to date, in part for reasons that ill get into. Mia hansenlove inspired by rohmer tiff 2016 youtube. Mia hansen loves latest film tells of a life at the crossroads. Their artistic collaboration was coupled by a union in real life, mia and olivier becoming life companions. Director mia hansenlove says that although her latest film was inspired by her mother, she realized in the process of making lavenir things to come that the story was as much about herself. Things to come premiered this week at the berlin international film festival.
For her fifth feature, french writerdirector mia hansenlove follows the quotidian travails of a 50something philosophy teacher played effortlessly and. Like hansen loves edm epic eden 2014a movie haunted by bad drugs, metabolism and bank accounts bottoming out, and a sense of lost utopia things to come is concerned with someone cobbling together a usable future out of the diminished possibilities left before them. Things to come is the only the fifth feature from hansenlove, following all is forgiven, the father of my children, goodbye first love and eden, but the maturity of her thinking and the depth of. Hupperts warm, wry performance as an academic facing a crisis at home powers mia hansen loves. The title card of things to come appears as the capstone on a prologue in which a couple and their two young children pay a visit to chateaubriands grave on a lonesome tidal island near saintmalo. The words make sense in the practical context, but when telescoped out into the. Mia hansenlove and isabelle huppert prove a dream partnership in the directors gorgeous, heartcradling postdivorce drama. Her fifth feature, things to come, stars isabelle huppert as nathalie chazeaux, a parisian philosophy teacher whose life. This, we may infer, is among the things to comethe silence and solitude of the grave. In things to come, oscar nominee isabelle huppert, in. In lavenir things to come, mia hansenloves realistic frenchlanguage drama making its world premiere at the berlin film festival, the eden director follows the rhythms of nathalie isabelle. The team headed by agathe valentin will also kick off presales for things to come by mia hansenlove at cannes. Director mia hansenloves search for independence in.
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