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Things To Come- Carnivorous Couch Review
CarnivorousCouch - wrote on 02/23/2017
This is my #20 film of 2016. It's Isabelle Huppert's second Oscar-worthy performance from this year and a great film about facing upheaval and change.
#20 FILM OF 2016: THINGS TO COME
The French language title of Mia Hansen-Love’s perceptive new French film is “The Future”, but its English title is Things To Come. Both fit the film perfectly, but I think the English title goes further into probing the film’s meaning and the mindset of its protagonist. “The Future” is a fine and fitting title for this beautiful, understated domestic drama about a French philosophy teacher in her sixties who, over the course of a year or so, loses her marriage, her mother, and her general sense of stability. The film is very much about saying goodbye to one’s past, both distant and …
