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This is the latest film work of French actress Irabel Huppert in 2016, because director Mia Hansen Love won the Golden Bear Award for Best Director. ".
Mia Hansen-Love is not a director I am familiar with. I watched this movie entirely for Isabelle Huppert. Of course, hers needs no introduction. In 2001, "The Piano Teacher" won the best in Cannes again. Actress Award. In 2002, "Eight Beauties" won the European Film Award for Best Actress and the Special Award of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In recent years, many films have also been made, and the most well-known is the recent "Her" directed by Paul Verhoeven. An actress who has already made a name for herself, and still has a lot of excellent works at her age, which is truly admirable.
It's just that I didn't expect that the director of this play, Mia Hansen-Love, was born on February 5, 1981, a French actor and director. He has acted in "My Love Forgotten in Autumn" and "The Destiny of Feelings". She is a young, beautiful and talented young female director. In 2007, he entered the film and television circle with his debut work "Hundreds of No Taboos". And has been nominated for various film campaign units, and this year's "The Future" finally helped her win the Golden Bear Award for Best Director.
However, everyone should be familiar with her husband Assayas, who is Maggie Cheung's ex-husband. In fact, I have seen Assayas's works, and I can feel it from Mia Hansen-Love's works. Her narrative style is actually obviously influenced by Assayas. The film uses a sympathetic and keen vision to unfold the life of the heroine Natalie. From the beginning to the end of the film, the plot and the story have almost no major dramatic conflicts. The director uses a relatively peaceful approach to put this The story unfolds before the eyes of the audience.
Mia Hansen-Love
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's Natalie lives like most women her age, taking care of her own family and an elderly mother who is anxious about being abandoned. The husband, who has been with him for 25 years, divorced because of cheating, and his life was a piece of shit, which put the middle-aged philosophy teacher and writer into a predicament. The film attempts to explore and find a way out of the predicament for the protagonist.
Natalie in the film almost encountered the worst thing that a middle-aged woman can encounter. Her husband had an affair and divorced, and her mother was mentally unstable and needed her care, and her career encountered a bottleneck...
The film starts from daily details, Delicately show the "midlife crisis" encountered by a French middle-class and intellectual woman. Natalie is familiar with the books of various philosophers and is good at analyzing various treatises, but life is not a philosophical topic, it cannot solve the dilemma in real life.
The students are keen on various political issues, and the husband, who is also a philosophy teacher, betrayed him because of an affair and divorced. The elderly mother, for fear of being abandoned, made various troubles every three days and kept harassing her daughter with various phone calls. She needs to face all kinds of difficulties, as if she can't find a way to save her.
There is a scene in the process where Natalie's daughter and son talk to their father after they learn that he is having an affair: You have to make a choice. As a child, not interfering in the affairs of the parents, and at the same time showing that they cannot deceive their mothers, this is a more rational and appropriate approach for foreign children. The husband made the choice to divorce her and moved her books to live with his lover.
And because she couldn't take care of her elderly mother, she was forced to choose to live in a nursing home. There is also a very impressive scene in the film: Natalie was sitting on the bus crying, but unexpectedly saw her ex-husband Heinz with his mistress, she suddenly laughed. Looking at such a scene, when the saddest time encounters the most ugly things, it is almost like pouring a handful of salt on the bleeding wound. Crying is no longer enough to express Natalie's desperation, and the tearful, frantic laugh expresses such sentiments with a sarcastic humor.
In the film, Natalie seems to have fallen into a desperate situation several times, and it will not make people feel that she has no way to go. This has to praise the degree of control of the characters and plot by the director Mia, which can be seen from here. Out, she is indeed a young director with great potential.
And it is precisely because of the actor Yi Peer that she uses her superb skills and emotions to show the most delicate emotional state of the characters. As the audience, we can't help but follow the characters in the play to experience and think about her emotions and experiences. It should be a woman who has a deep understanding of the family and the individual to create such a Natalie.
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From the beginning to the end, the film discusses how Natalie got out of the predicament. She gradually changed herself and tried to gather with different people to find spiritual comfort. In the film, Natalie has a good personal relationship with the young male student Fabien. After she broke up with her husband, she had a lot of opposite scenes with this young man. From the beginning I thought that the two might have
a "year-old love" like Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez in Adrian Lane's "Infidelity", but the director is very restrained The drama wears off like that, and nothing happens to them. But the film shows us Natalie's age-defying attraction through the way the two get along. In Pell, the charm of women has never been limited to young girls, and she can give characters a charm that transcends ages.
But Natalie's behaviors seeking breakthroughs also face many problems and challenges. The moderate Fabien accused her of philosophical theories of standing in the middle class of France and using a superior attitude to describe philosophical thoughts. In fact, Fabian is right, Natalie does have such a tendency, but for a middle-aged and authoritative philosophy teacher, this is really a huge blow. In the film, Natalie was lying on the bed crying after listening to it. She was only accompanied by an old cat "Pandora", which made people sigh. It seems to feel that if one day in the future, we may also face the mental dilemma inherent in age and formation.
From the beginning to the end of the film, the whole story is presented in a gentle narrative way. There is no strong dramatic conflict and strong emotional images, so in the end, they all live a dull life, until the great changes happen, and they also use a kind of gradually and deeply to vent the emotions of the characters. It's a rarity in recent years to describe the earth-shaking changes in life with a level of calm and poignant humor, and it also shows another way of doing great work.
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In the second half of the film, time gradually healed the wounds in Natalie's heart. Until the last scene, Natalie was holding her nephew while the music played. It was only at this moment that I really understood the meaning of the film's title "Future Things". ". Maybe in the future, like Natalie in the play, we will be middle-aged, busy with work, and live a life of chicken feathers. Maybe our marriage may fail, and the lover may leave you. The children grew up, left home, and lived their own lives. And the parents who have been troubled and aging have also left him.
As life goes on, we may become the rigid ideology that the students say, always showing a good teacher side. After hearing criticism, we will hide in the room and cry loudly, hugging our pets, or we may not even have a lazy cat by our side.
But we will try to change, and we will make ourselves better and more independent, and we will reconcile with people and things around us. For example, we can sit by our mother's bed and discuss TV comfortably with our old mother. If the man is not handsome enough, he can usually accuse his ex-husband of stealing his grandson in front of his children, he will not miss all touching things, and he will usher in a new life and make his life more enjoyable.
In fact, things in the future are not necessarily terrible. Each time gives people different things. What matters is what kind of mentality we use to reconcile people and things around us, and extend a more meaningful future. It can be beautiful in the past, and it can be calm in the future.
Irabel Huppert in his youth
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