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Things to Come (2016 film)

L'Avenir
(Things to Come)
L'Avenir.jpg
French release poster
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring Isabelle Huppert
Cinematography Denis Lenoir
Edited by Marion Monnier
Production
companies
Distributed by Les Films du Losange
Release date
  • 13 February 2016 (2016-02-13) (Berlin)
  • 6 April 2016 (2016-04-06) (France)
Running time
102 minutes
Country
  • France
  • Germany
Language French
Budget $3.2 million
Box office $4.2 million

Things to Come (French title: L'Avenir) is a 2016 French-German drama film written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve and starring Isabelle Huppert.Principal photography began on 22 June 2015 in Paris. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, Hansen-Løve won the Silver Bear for Best Director.

Huppert won several nominations and awards for her performance in the film, including the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year.

Hansen-Løve stated that she wrote the role of Nathalie with Isabelle Huppert in mind. She also admitted that the character of Nathalie was loosely based on her own mother who was a philosophy professor who separated from her husband later in life.

Things to Come received critical acclaim. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating, based on 102 reviews, with an average score of 8.2/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 88, based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".


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