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100% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve Written by Mia Hansen-Løve Edited by Marion Monnier Director Mia Hansen-Løve Languages English, French, German | 7.1/10 IMDb 4/5 The Guardian Produced by Charles Gillibert Starring Isabelle Huppert Initial release 18 August 2016 (Germany) Cinematography Denis Lenoir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhône-Alpes Cinéma Awards National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Cast Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka, André Marcon, Édith Scob, Sarah Lepicard Similar Isabelle Huppert movies, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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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.
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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.
Critical response
Things to Come received critical acclaim. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating, based on 99 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".
