
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie's husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.... (Full plot summary below)
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Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie's husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
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| TimeStephanie ZacharekHuppert is extraordinary — she reveals everything even when you think she’s showing nothing — and she’s the perfect actress, right now, for Hansen-Løve’s fine-grained perceptiveness. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughCinematic rarity — a genuinely philosophical film. |
| The PlaylistKevin JagernauthMostly this is a thrillingly compassionate, deceptively simple, and wholly invested look at a capable older woman with a lively mind coping with a series of common misfortunes. Where that could be depressing, or at least overridingly melancholy, here it is strangely hopeful. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThings to Come holds us completely. A life is unfolding here, under our eyes, and we never lose sight of how special that is. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichThings to Come may lack the urgency or cool that flecks the writer-director’s previous movies, but this is perhaps her richest piece to date, a warm, funny and profoundly sensitive portrait of letting go and learning to make new memories. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeHuppert is such a persistently and prolifically rigorous performer that she risks being taken for granted in some of her vehicles, but this is major, many-shaded work even by her lofty standards. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeThis is an intelligently made film about an intelligent woman, but it’s also emotionally engaging. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottMs. Hansen-Love surveys the territory with clear eyes, but also with an unmistakable shading of pity and with ideas, in particular about Nathalie’s sexuality and the political compromises of her generation, that seem more like assumptions than insights. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriAs we watch this woman lose her family, her status, and maybe even some part of her pride, we sense both the horror and the intoxication of freedom. |
| Screen InternationalWendy IdeIt’s to the credit of Isabelle Huppert, who excels in the role of philosophy teacher Nathalie, and to the deft handling by Hansen-Løve that the film wears its wealth of ideas so lightly. |