Things to Come
Nathalie (played by the wonderful Isabelle Huppert) is a passionate philosophy teacher who likes what she does, and often encourages her students to take part in intellectual discussions in class. Privately, Nathalie divides her time between her husband, her two adult children, and her slightly crazy mother, who is in need of her attention. One day, her stable life takes an unexpected turn, as her husband leaves her for another woman. Nathalie has to make a new life from scratch, and she does so in a rather peculiar way. In making this original, ironic portrait of a woman at a crossroads in life, Mia Hansen-Løve intelligently raises questions about what happiness and freedom are and how to accept and deal with the most unexpected twists in life. The film often returns to Nathalie's philosophical education, searching for analogies between the wisdom found in books by great thinkers and the banality of everyday life. Like in the former, Things to Come has no room for simple answers.
awards
Berlin IFF 2016 - Best Director; Bucharest IFF 2016 - Best Director
Mia Hansen-Løve
Mia Hansen-Løve was born in Paris in 1981. She started her adventure in film as an actor, appearing, at the age of 17, in Olivier Assayas's Late August, Early September. She studied at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts (CNSAD) in Paris. She has also written for the prestigious Cahiers du Cinéma. Her first film, All Is Forgiven, was nominated for a Caesar and won the Louis Delluc Prize for best debut feature. Her films regularly screen at the world's top festivals.
Filmography
2007 Tout est pardonné / All Is Forgiven
2009 Ojciec moich dzieci / Le père de mes enfants / Father of my Children
2011 Żegnaj, pierwsza miłości / Un amour de jeunesse / Goodbye First Love
2014 Eden
2016 Co przynosi przyszłość / L'avenir / Things to Come