THINGS TO COME (L'AVENIR) |
PLAYING AT THE CREST THEATRE. In English & French with English subtitles. AWARDS - Silver Bear (Best Director, Mia Hansen-Løve), Berlin International Film Festival 2016 REVIEWS Mia Hansen-Love and Isabelle Huppert prove a dream partnership in the director's gorgeous, heart-cradling post-divorce drama. Guy Lodge, Variety A film whose subtle satisfactions very much sneak up on you. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "Things to Come" is a smart, earnest undertaking: an exploration of the insecurity that can hit any of us, at any age, when we start to question the life we've built. Henry Barnes, Guardian Will she change? Will she throttle back, come on down, open up? She's a cerebral handful, but we're rooting for her every strut of the way. Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal (...) thanks equally to Hansen-Love and Huppert. We come away feeling enriched and expanded, without exactly knowing how or why. Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Following her triumph in "Elle", French screen legend Isabelle Huppert scores another bullseye with this delicate tale of philosophy professor starting over. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone This is an intelligently made film about an intelligent woman, but it's also emotionally engaging; who among us wouldn't like to feel that we could persevere even if stripped of nearly everything that defines us? Alonso Duralde, TheWrap |
PURCHASE 16th SFFF What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build falls apart all at once? Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert, nominated for a 2017 Oscar for Elle; Madame Bovary - SFFF 2015, Copacabana - SFFF 2011; in another radiant performance) is a philosophy professor with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family (including frequent visits to her drama queen mother, played by the legendary Édith Scob (Eyes Without a Face - SFFF 2008). But, beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of 25 years is leaving her for another woman, one by one the pillars of Nathalie’s life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets out to define this new phase of her life and to rediscover herself. Winner of the Best Director award at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, the new film from Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) is a subtle and uncommonly intelligent, soul-searching look at what it means to create a life of one’s own. The signature of Hansen-Løve's cinema is that every scene, even the seemingly insignificant ones, and every gesture, even the smallest ones, carry so much meaning that you will find yourself thinking about them long after you have left the theatre. Shown with HALF TIME (MI-TEMPS) by Marie Sauvion & Lotfi Bahmed CREST THEATRE |
