Fans of the always impeccable Isabelle Huppert are in for a double dose of cinematic treats this fall. The actress will be in the awards season race with Paul Verhoeven‘s acclaimed, button-pushing “Elle,” and she also leads Mia Hansen-Løve‘s low-key “Things To Come,” which now has a new domestic trailer.
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Co-starring André Marcon, Roman Kolinka and Edith Scob, this gentle drama follows Nathalie, a philosophy teacher who must reassess her life when her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman. It’s a rare look at a woman in post-midlife crisis, and Hansen-Løve has certainly crafted a multi-faceted role for Huppert. Here’s the official synopsis:
What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build falls apart all at once? Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert, in a radiant performance) is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family (including frequent visits to her drama queen mother, played by the legendary Édith Scob). But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie’s life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets out to define this new phase of her life and to rediscover herself. Winner of the Best Director award at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, the new film from Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) is an uncommonly intelligent, soul-searching look at what it means to create a life of one’s own.
“Things To Come” opens on December 2nd.