Few filmmakers are as adept at exploring the contours of modern love and grief as Mia Hansen-Løve, whose intensely poignant and deeply personal ONE FINE MORNING stars Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a professional translator and single mother at a crossroads. Her father, rapidly deteriorating from a neurological illness, will soon require facility care, and her new lover is a married dad whose unavailability only seems to draw her nearer to him, despite – or because of – the fact that she’s going through an overwhelming time in her life. Hansen-Løve, so finely observant of the small nuances of human interaction, creates, in harmonious concert with a magnificent Seydoux, a complicated portrait of a woman torn between romantic desire and familial tragedy that is a marvel of emotional and formal economy.
(Excerpted from Film at Lincoln Center)
French with subtitles. R, 1h 52m.
"It's about romantic heartbreak and the fading of a well-loved parent, but it also has these winsome moments of humor." – FilmWeek (NPR Los Angeles)
"Hansen-Løve finds moments of truth in the melange, and Seydoux is transcendent, carrying a sadness inside which proves incredibly moving when the opportunity for love presents itself and she melts into it." – Screen International
"A profound and captivating portrait of love, lost, found, and ever-remaining." – TheWrap