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L'AVENIR

THINGS TO COME
by Mia Hansen-Løve
Country: France, Germany
Year: 2016
Duration: 100'


Nathalie is a philosophy professor who lives in Paris with her husband, also a philosopher, and their two children. They both lived through the events of 1968, but over time their political engagement became weaker as their level of comfort increased. Nathalie’s life seems to be serenely headed toward old age, until her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman. An unexpected breakup, rationally inexplicable, which she will be able to overcome only by embracing her emotional side. [mp]

Biography

film director

Mia Hansen-Løve

(Paris, France, 1981) started her film career playing roles in Olivier Assayas’ movies Fin août, début septembre (1998) and Les destinées sentimentales (2000). She then studied at the X Arrondissement Conservatory in Paris and worked as a film critic for the “Cahiers du cinéma.” In 2003, she made her first short, Après mûre réflexion. In 2007, she wrote and directed her first feature Tout est pardonné, which was screened at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. Her second movie, Le père de mes enfants, was also presented in Cannes, but in the Certain regard section, where it won the Special Jury Award. Un amour de jeunesse (2011), her third feature, was in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, while L’avenir (2016) won the Silver Bear at the latest edition of the Berlinale. Bergman Island (2021) was presented in competion at the last Cannes Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Après mûre réflexion (cm, 2004), Tout est pardonné (2007), Le père de mes enfants (Il padre dei miei figli, 2009), Un amour de jeunesse (2011), Eden (id., 2014), L’avenir (Le cose che verranno, 2016), Maya (2018), Bergman Island (2021).

Declaration

film director

“When I write, I’m concerned with rhythm, musicality and lots of other things but hardly at all with a lack of information about the characters’ ‘psychology.’ What we need to know is generally expressed as we go along without needing to be explained. In fact I try, from writing through editing, to remove as much information as possible. If I feel a scene merely serves a purpose, I cut it out. If I keep it, it has existential value, poetry.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Mia Hansen-Løve
fotografia/cinematography
Denis Lenoir
montaggio/film editing
Marion Monnier
scenografia/production design
Anna Falguères
costumi/costume design
Rachèle Raoult
suono/sound
Vincent Vatoux
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Isabelle Huppert (Nathalie), André Marcon (Heinz), Roman Kolinka (Fabien), Edith Scob (Yvette), Sarah Le Picard (Chloé), Solal Forte (Johann), Elise Lhomeau (Esla), Lionel Dray (Hugo), Grégoire Montana-Haroche (Simon), Lina Benzerti (Antonia)
produzione/production
CG Cinéma
coproduzione/coproduction
Detail Film, Arte France Cinéma, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
distribuzione/distribution
Satine Film Distribuzione


contatti/contacts
Les Films du Losange
Lise LZ. Zipci
l.zipci@filmsdulosange.fr
www.filmsdulosange.fr
Satine Film Distribuzione
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