Synopsis
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
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Cast
- Isabelle HuppertNathalie Chazeaux
- André MarconHeinz
- Roman KolinkaFabien
- Édith ScobYvette
- Sarah Le PicardChloé
- Solal ForteJohann
- Élise LhomeauElsa
- Lionel DrayHugo
- Yves HeckDaniel
- Grégoire Montana-HarocheSimon (élève lycée)
Recommendations
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Variety
Huppert is such a persistently and prolifically rigorous performer that she risks being taken for granted in some of her vehicles, but this is major, many-shaded work even by her lofty standards. - 100
IndieWire
Things to Come may lack the urgency or cool that flecks the writer-director’s previous movies, but this is perhaps her richest piece to date, a warm, funny and profoundly sensitive portrait of letting go and learning to make new memories. - 91
The Film Stage
While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance. - 90
Screen Daily
It’s to the credit of Isabelle Huppert, who excels in the role of philosophy teacher Nathalie, and to the deft handling by Hansen-Løve that the film wears its wealth of ideas so lightly. - 88
Slant Magazine
The film is further confirmation of Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately devastating ear and touch as a filmmaker. - 80
CineVue
A fluent, confident and deeply felt work by an astute chronicler of life, Things to Come considers the fragility of ideas when exposed to the eroding force of time in beautifully humane fashion. - 80
The Guardian
Things to Come is 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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The film’s shrewd sense of humor, its way of underlining the absurdity of life’s foibles, is fully carried by Huppert’s disarming performance, which never panders to easy sentiments but doesn’t shy away from showcasing raw emotion.
