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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½

  Isabelle Huppert is burying
  every other working actor.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 3

  It’s never a good idea to take public transportation home from a funeral, but sexagenarian philosophy professor Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert) insists on learning that lesson the hard way. Crumpled against the window of a bus as it groans its way through the streets of Paris, Nathalie begins to cry. The teenage girl sitting in the seat across from her eyeballs the scene like she’s resisting the urge to Instagram it, like she has no idea that it’s only a matter of time before we’re all the woman crying on the bus. That’s when Nathalie spies Heinz (Andre Marcon), still technically her husband, walking around town with the young woman who recently inspired him to walk out on his wife…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 4

  Løved it.

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  Review by Laura ★★★★★

  i never thought much of the fluidity of what belongs to us/what we belong to before watching this. how our titles change throughout life: child, parent, spouse, grandparent, and the small moments in between when we belong to nothing. and when your life is shared with someone, you accumulate all of these belongings, shelves full of books, and places that you visit every year, that become strangers once you part. your shelves become sparse, and you recognize what is missing more than what’s still there. but over time you fill in all the gaps with new books that belong entirely to you. 

  there’s something very freeing about things to come; how nothing is held onto too tightly, even when you…

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 1

  how come when I watch stuff about American academics trying to figure it out I'm like, "FUCK you and FUCK this," and when I watch stuff about European academics trying to figure it out I'm like, "ah, this is the most Fulfilling a Life can Be" ?

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★

  we are all waiting for the inevitable, the best we can do is cope with the present

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Tomorrow always comes. So well modulated and detailed. The film deceptively sneaks on you with all the weight of a life lived. Huppert’s performance has such a lived-in quality; she just fills the screen. Also, Pandora should won a Cesar.

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  Review by 🔮 dana danger 🔮 ★★★★

  huppert is doing so many brilliant little things here: going back for the ikea bag, walking through muck to learn about her manipulative mother, consoling a baby and her crying daughter at once, giving away pandora. it's a quietly revelatory performance that refuses histrionics.

  and how can i get into that pastoral french anarchist lifestyle please?

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  Review by Chris Feil ★★★★★ 1

  A woman who lives to teach others how to think for themselves loses so much of her everyday pillars that she has to think about how to live for herself. It moves me more and more each time I watch.

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  Review by nick ★★★★ 1

  Things to Come is a French woman's quiet journey of coping with earth-shattering crises in her bougie, intellectual existence, as well as a mournful statement on the discrepancy between philosophical ideas and absurd reality. It's characteristic of the everyday, microscopic approach of European cinema, yet brims with human resilience that exudes emotional power.

  Things to Come has the power it possesses largely thanks to Isabelle Huppert's extremely restrained and comfortable delivery. Huppert's ability to convey emotions through her characteristic deadpan delivery is the most mesmerizing thing to look at cinematically, even more so than the story itself. As an interesting insight into the lives of the French bourgeoisie, the philosophical aspect of the story may appear disorganized and aimless from…

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  Review by Richard Chandler ★★★★ 6

  "Can we put ourselves in the place of the other?"

  Though I've long harbored vague curiosity regarding the filmography of French auteur Mia Hansen-Løve, it was nevertheless the siren call of star Isabelle Huppert that brought us to Things to Come (L'Avenir), an airy yet robust character study of a middle-aged educator adjusting on the fly to an unbidden new life of bittersweet freedom. In fairly short order, Huppert's Nathalie loses a difficult parent, a colorless marriage and a compromised career—leading the former philosophy instructor to reflect on the extent to which these traditional bulwarks have shaped her existence thus far.

  Nathalie dips a toe in the mid-life crisis pool—briefly appearing to chase a narcissistic radical half her age, but…

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  Review by Ale ★★★★

  i wish isabelle huppert was my philosophy teacher