ONE FINE MORNING (UN BEAU MATIN) World Cinema

Following two travel films in a row – the India-set MAYA (AFI FEST 2018) and the metatextual BERGMAN ISLAND – Mia Hansen-Løve returns to her Parisian roots with another intricately melancholic work of auto-fiction. Léa Seydoux illuminates the screen as Sandra, a translator and single mother balancing raising her daughter and caring for her ailing father (Pascal Greggory), who is suffering from a neurodegenerative disease. While scrambling to place her father in a suitable nursing home, she unexpectedly encounters an old friend, Clement (Melvil Poupaud), and the two rekindle a passionate affair. Hansen-Løve, who lost her own father a few years prior, weaves together a finely observed and deeply personal tale of familial conflict and human connection. Gracefully realized in sun-kissed hues and unhurried naturalism, ONE FINE MORNING paints a complicated portrait of an unassuming heroine as she regards love and loss with bittersweet endurance. –Anna Li