Things to Come

THINGS TO COME is filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve’s (EDEN, GOODBYE FIRST LOVE, THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN) warmest, most affecting film yet. Led by the incomparable Isabelle Huppert (THE PIANO TEACHER, ELLE, AMOUR, LA CÉRÉMONIE), this is Hansen-Løve’s first time working with a star of Huppert’s stature and gifts, and together they have created a rich, hopeful movie about a woman facing emotional difficulties by embracing the sweet idea of a better future. THINGS TO COME premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, where Hansen-Løve was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director, also screened at the 2016 Telluride and Toronto festivals and will screen at the 2016 New York Film Festival.

Philosophy teachers Nathalie (Huppert) and Heinz (André Marcon) have been married for many years and have two grown-up children. Nathalie devotes her time to the textbooks she publishes as a sideline, to former students who have become friends and, above all, to her mother (Edith Scob), a very demanding woman. One day, Heinz tells Nathalie that he has fallen in love with another woman and is moving in with her. At the same time, Nathalie is confronted with her mother's death. It's the start of a whole new life. Nathalie is alone and summer is just beginning. What will it be like?

"At once simple in form and riddled with rivulets of complex feeling. Mia Hansen-Løve and Isabelle Huppert prove a dream partnership in the director's gorgeous, heart-cradling post-divorce drama. This is a major, many-shaded work even by Huppert’s lofty standards.” – Guy Lodge, Variety

"Grade A. A thrillingly compassionate, deceptively simple, and wholly invested look at a capable older woman with a lively mind coping with a series of common misfortunes. Hansen-Løve shows a woman of an age and lifestage that is most often ignored, marginalized, or pitied in the canon of modern cinema, as she busily rescues herself, every day of her life." – Jessica Kiang, Indiewire

"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. Hansen-Løve channels Huppert's superior air to great effect." – Henry Barnes, The Guardian