Isabelle Huppert Excels in Things to Come

by Kathy Fennessy
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve is 35, and Things to Come is her fifth feature. But while 2014’s Eden explored the pleasures and perils of youth, the new film revolves around a 63-year-old woman. Aside from the fact that Hansen-Løve, the daughter of philosophy teachers, avoids the stereotypes usually associated with films about older women, it's more about change than age.
During the course of the film, Nathalie (played by Isabelle Huppert), a philosophy te