“Things to Come” is a pungent drama that links together Mia Hansen-Love and Isabelle Huppert, acclaimed French director and actress, respectively.
Last year, the latter was the protagonist in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle”, receiving well-deserved accolades around the world for her brilliant performance. This year, one can only expect to hear wonders about her acting skills since she reteamed up with directors Hong Sang-soo in “Claire’s Camera” and Michael Haneke in “Happy End”.
Huppert excels once again under the direction of Hansen-Love, winner of a Silver Berlin Bear, who wrote the script with the actress in mind. Her previous film, “Eden”, was on my favorite list of 2014.
Her new film follows Nathalie Chazeaux (Huppert), a qualified high school
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To quote her own words: ‘I’m fulfilled intellectually’; ‘I found my total freedom’. She suffers in silence as she seems to fully accept the unfamiliar situation she is in. There are no dramas. The only person she relies on to talk about her personal life is Fabien (Roman Kolinka), a former student who invites her for a farm he bought in the mountains. Although he considers her a bourgeois and pretends to be more radical than he really is, they are genuinely fond of each other.
Trying not to loose face, her eyes were soaked in tears with a painful ‘au revoir’ to Heinz’s beautiful beach house, where she used to spend her summers.
By taking a good look at its narrative, one may think this is a heavy dark film, but it doesn’t work like that. After all, family is still there. One fundamental question arises, though. What would be of this woman if she had no children?
Even deserving all the praise for eschewing clichés and dramatic trifles, Hansen-Love could have suppressed a couple of scenes that felt contrived and unnecessary. The first is when a man harasses Nathalie at the movies; the second when her mother’s cat escapes from the carrier in the direction of the mountains, making her react in a dull way.
As for the rest, this character-driven accomplishment is powerful, portraying life’s contingencies with class, honesty, and an extraordinary
Perseverance and a strong spirit had been methodically etched by God into the essence of this beautiful woman. These characteristics are only gained through overcoming challenges by which her accomplishments display. Delays often came that made her progress slow, but her persistence made both her, and her love, sure and steady.
Within this story the superb characters are showered in positive results. The first positive result
In every person’s life, one will find obstacles to prevail. Some will jump, while others soar. What will you meet on your path and how will you approach it? Young Ju, from the novel “A Step from Heaven,” by An Na, and Mitch, from, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” by Mitch Albom, are two examples of characters who reveal their reactions to their adversity. They overcome quandaries through their unique characteristics, thus revealing their true selves. Young Ju reveals the fact that she is a dreamer and bravery. On the other hand, Mitch exhibits patience and compassion. In all, both Young Ju, and Mitch persevere conquer predicaments using, revealing their true personalities.
The film thrives on the renewed bond between mother and daughter. Tilly returns to her hometown to visit her mother and discovers her mother suffering from dementia and the house in a state of neglect. “Look what they’ve done to you!” Tilly exclaims. Tilly cleans up the house, and bathes and feeds her mother, not
When Hannah’s beloved husband Frank Roennfeldt takes their infant Grace and jumps into a dinghy to protect her from a swarm of racial abuse, Hannah is unaware that this is the last time she will ever see her husband. She is forced to cope with the unknown for four years, wondering every day if her husband and daughter are alive. Despite never giving up hope, this loss takes a toll on Hannah’s mental health, as she feels isolated/isolates herself ??. Stedman emphasises Hannah’s loneliness and vulnerability through bittersweet lines of dialogue such as “The baby I lost is never coming back.” (pg. 310) and “Frank was a lovely man.” (pg.
The cast and their performance can change viewers experience and judgement of a film. It takes looks and strong acting from the cast to bring characters to life, but this film made changes where actor/actresses either enhance the film or not.
McGehee and Siegel convey the disconnected and broken relationship between Maisie and her parents, Susanna and Beale, through music, camera work, and lighting. Suspenseful
At the end of the day, it’s a romantic comedy. Featuring Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) an author who starts off being arrogant and loaded with himself. At that point Nina Moseley (Nia Long) a photographer, with feelings everywhere. The motion picture identifies with one type of relationship as the essential core interest. Leaving others to trust that affection is befuddling and confounded.
As a women, she is a good wife, and respect her husband even though she does not love her husband anymore; to Rindy, she is a good mother; to Abbey, she is an ex-lover and a best friend that is willing to share any secret; to herself, she owns her strong desire to pursue what she values, and has a sense of self-awareness of being a women back to sixty years ago. She offers an eloquent, moving reminder of the prohibition but exhilarating, vulnerable but powerful, necessary if sometimes tragic requisites of lesbian desire before so many of women assimilated into legal marriage and domesticity. Whereas the male characters are presented as a constant invasive bother, always butting in when they’re not wanted, but, hilariously accurate, being too self-important to realize they’re interrupting. Men’s feelings and actions, which usually would inform the core of the film, are cast in a new light. Among its many visual, intellectual, and political pleasures, the director’s exquisite eye for the details of awakening women to express their feelings, to in charge of their thoughts, and two actresses whose chemistry and intelligent, wrenching performances mean so much, which finally enable Carol attractive and
Masterworks of the independent cinema like “Old Joy”, “Wendy and Lucy”, “Meek’s Cutoff”, and “Night Moves”, turned her into one of the most well-regarded filmmakers of our times.
The 25-year old Lola Kirke (who you might remember as the grifter in "Gone Girl") gives a very impressive performance, that's capably nuanced. As expected though, Gerwig is the standout, and she fortunately doesn't do a repeat of "Frances Ha". Brooke is endearing, flaws and all, and her comic moments always yield big laughs, yet she is seamlessly able to translate into more serious trajectories. It'll be interesting to see if Gerwig will ever return to the darker roles that permeated the independent films that she began her career in (even in "Greenberg" she played a far more dismal character), but for now we can rest assured that she's made herself into such a bright "it" girl for
Throughout the film, Susie looks down upon her shattered family from her special place in the ‘unknown’. She sees her dad (Mark Wahlberg) tear apart at the seams, piece by piece, stitch by stitch. Her mum (Rachel Weisz) leaves the family home in the hope of finding solace some place else. Susie begins to find connections to her family. Simply unexplainable connections. The relationship between Susie and her father is reason enough to go and see this film. The magnitude of love a father can have toward his daughter is more than evident in this film - the onscreen chemistry of Wahlberg and Ronan adds an additional sentimental element to this masterpiece. Watching Susie’s father’s connection remain robust as ever, despite her physical self no longer being with him, is true magic. We share in his rollercoaster of emotions and understand his need to reconcile. Time to grieve. Time to heal. Time to be.
For my film review I decided to watch Vision: The Life of Hildegard von Bingen, (2009). The story of a 12th century German nun, Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa), that was best known for her visions of God that were written down by Monk Volmar (Heino Ferch) and her fellow nun Richardis von Stade (Hannah Herzsprung). The film starts off with Hildegard being brought to the cloister as a young child because she speaks the language of God, although she does not admit this until later in life when she finally confides in Monk Volmar whom appears to be her closest friend and confidant. Much of this film appears to deal with her rise and fall from grace with various people because she stood her ground on the legitimacy of her visions and learnings. This leads to her becoming a polarizing figure in the Christian world at the time especially to the women that join the cloister to follow her. But much of the drama and the center of the plot deals with many of the Christian leaders not following their own teachings, including her.
Maggie Cheung plays the love interest of Feng, in another role that is more of a cameo, since her screen-time barely adds up to ten minutes, and half of them are spent on close-ups of her face. However, her character is essential to the story, although more as a reason for Feng's action than an actual presence. Nevertheless, Cheung proved once more that she could act wonderfully, even in very short roles.
Both the story and the film begin with the establishment of the character of Connie as a typical teenage girl who struggles to find the balance between romance and family relationship. Connie is a 15-year old girl who rejects the role of a daughter, sister and nice girl to grow her sexual persona. She makes fun of her older sister, June and is in constant conflict with her family. Her concerns in the text are adolescent as she thinks about her looks, listen to music, hangs out with friend and flirts with boys. She feels good when she thinks that boys and men find her attractive. She has created a particular manner of dressing, walking, talking and laughing which makes her sexually attractive, although the manners she has are temporary and artificial. Her behavior in the house is different from when she is somewhere else as when she is in at home her sexual urges go to hiding. She tries to appear more wiser than she is