Things to Come

Original title: L'avenir

2016
PG-13
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

15K

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Isabelle Huppert and Roman Kolinka in Things to Come (2016)

A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.

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A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

15K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 9 wins & 25 nominations

Trivia
Nathalie Chazeaux is based on writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve's mother, Laurence Hansen-Løve who is a philosophy professor, and has written a book called Philosophy A to Z.

Goofs
Nathalie is shown walking through the mud flats exposed along the beach at low tide. As she walks, she is clearly following footprints. Since the mud was previously underwater, the footprints must be from a previous take of Isabelle Huppert walking along the same path.

Quotes
Nathalie Chazeaux: All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Connections
Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)

Soundtracks
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774
Music by Franz Schubert
Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone and Gerald Moore, Piano

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Featured review

8/10

Life goes on

Until this movie I never quite got the hype for Mia Hansen-Løve. Her slice-of-life, semi- autobiographical movies seemed forgettable to me. Maybe Hansen-Løve is growing as an artist, or maybe it's just Huppert. Whatever it is, Things to Come, is a movie that's stuck in my mind, a beautiful portrait of a woman whose life is upended just as she is entering the final third of her life.

The great French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Nathalie (based on Hansen-Løve's own mother). A successful philosophy professor with two grown children, a fellow philosopher for a husband, and an ailing mother, she is comfortably settled in her life. But as the movie continues on we watch as the things that Nathalie considered so much a part of her, change, dissolve, disintegrate.

I'll admit it, I was actually initially reluctant to watch the movie because the idea of seeing a woman having everything taken away from her seemed almost too sad to bear. And yet Things to Come is a surprisingly joyful movie. Nathalie isn't an automaton, she cries as the things she once counted on as part of her life are no more, but at the same time she picks herself up, dusts herself off and goes on.