Event Description
Isabelle Huppert is note-perfect in this moving account of a philosophy teacher spiralling through a series of late-life crises. We meet her character, Nathalie Chazeaux, en-route to the tidal island of Grand Bé off Brittany, earnestly examining the visual quality of music with her husband, Heinz (André Marcon). At the grave of the 19th century writer and politician Chateaubriand, Heinz stays by the lonely sea view while his family scamper ahead, warning of an incoming tide. It’s a sunny family scene, but one with a portentous air. Moving ahead several years we meet Nathalie again in Paris, where protests are stopping her students from attending class, to the annoyance of the one-time communist (‘just for three years, like most intellectuals’). When Heinz taunts her about her changing politics, Nathalie’s scornful retort is that he hasn’t re-examined his since he was 18.
Yet Heinz has a secret that will prove that love is even less stable than politics or philosophy. ‘I thought you’d love me forever,’ says Nathalie, ruefully. ‘What an idiot.’
English title: Things To Come
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Release date:2016
Drama
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 1hr 42mins
French with English subtitles
