![]() They did not object to their daughter borrowing elements from their lives, but the director’s mother drew the line at having the cat in the movie share its name with the family’s real-life pet. Both of Hansen-Love’s parents are philosophy teachers. Things To Come draws heavily on characters and events in its director’s own background. But she realised Huppert could counter this and “free” her from the “melancholy the subject could have had”. ![]() When she was writing her screenplay, Hansen-Love fretted about the darkness of its themes. “Actors are partly what they act but also the choices they make,” says Hansen-Love. Huppert, says Hansen-Love, knows just how to play smart women while giving them irony, depth and even a certain self-mocking quality. Hansen-Love talks of the “modernity” in Huppert’s acting and the way she “lives the character in every split second”. Things To Come is about a middle-aged woman at a fraught moment in her life, as her grown-up children leave home and her husband confesses to an infidelity. In her earlier pictures, Hansen-Love was dealing primarily with younger characters: the mother betrayed by her drug-addicted husband in All Is Forgiven (2007) the daughter of the debt-ridden producer in The Father Of My Children (2009) the young woman experiencing romance in Goodbye First Love (2011) and the DJ who loses his way in Eden (2014). “In my four previous films, I had no idea before I started casting.” ![]() “It’s the first time I had an actress in mind as I was writing,” says the film-maker. Huppert plays a philosophy professor with a seemingly happy life whose husband suddenly announces he is leaving her for another woman, and Hansen-Love describes her as “the best actress in France”. French writer-director Mia Hansen-Love cannot hide her delight with Isabelle Huppert, the star of her film, Things To Come, which is playing in Jerusalem Film Festival’s International Competition.
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