Monday, October 2, 2017

Things to Come (L'avenir) 2016


     Natalie is very busy and she is 50 something years old.  She teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris.  She is very passionate about her job and she devotes a lot of time with her students plus to her previous students.  She is married and she has two children.  She also takes care of her elderly mother and she calls Natalie several times a day.  Her mother is a model but she is depressed and she calls the fire department several times a week.  The department tells Natalie that they are going to stop coming to her mother’s apartment. 
     Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, existence considered as an academic discipline.  Since this is thinking, thought and reasoning, there are innumerable explanations of any subject.   This film reminds me of Woody Allen film because his films are always about relationships?  Also shown in this film is how the passage of time changes the now to something different.  I was surprised to see the quantity of books in Natalie’s home.  She reads many books and she is also a writer of published textbooks.  The scenes of France and the countryside are very beautiful.  3* (This movie is OK)   
    
102 min, Drama directed by Mia Hansen-Love with Isabelle Huppert, Andre Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray, Gregoire Montanan, Lina Benzerti, Yves Heck.

Note:  Imdb 7.0 out of 10, 100% critic 70% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 3.8* out of 5* with 13 reviews, Metacritic 88 out of 100 with 28 critics 6.9 out of 10 with 33 reviews.
Special Note:  Filmed in Ile-de-France and Lyon, Rhone, Rone-Alpes, France.  The time of running listed on the back of the DVD is incorrect?  This film is actually longer than 102 min.  Director Mia Hansen-Love based the film on her mother Laurence Hansen-Love as the character Natalie.  Her mother reviewed the script and the only change she wanted was the name of the cat to respect the cat’s privacy!!  There is another film with the same title of 1936.

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