“Things to Come” – Life goes on [MOVIE REVIEW]
Isabelle Huppert in “Things to Come” courtesy of IFC Films. “Things to Come,” written and directed by Mia Hansen Løve, arrives on the scene with a major calling card – its actress, the incomparable Isabelle Huppert. Ms. Huppert is that rare star, surely she deserves her own solar system, who bears watching no matter the material. In the case of “Things to Come,” a film about philosophy that only the French would consider making, Ms. Løve has made the journey more enjoyable by making Ms. Huppert’s character and dilemma its core. We first meet Nathalie (Huppert), her son, daughter, and husband approaching the island gravesite of the great French philosopher and romanticist, Chateaubriand, off the coast of Brittany. For her husband, Heinz, the rough water trip is more like a pilgrimage; the rest of the family, including Nathalie, not so much, although she, like her husband, is a philosophy professor. The oblique view of this disconnected foursome is a prescient glimpse of things to come. Despite her seeming indifference to Chateaubriand, whose philosophical credo was “one inhabits, with a full heart, an empty world,” Nathalie is passionate about her subject, a passion that is missing…
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