Mia Hansen Løve Charlotte Wells on One Fine Morning and Aftersun, NYFF60
This talk brings together the directors behind two stunning works of autofiction in the NYFF60 lineup. One Fine Morning by leading French filmmaker (and NYFF staple) Mia HansenLøve and Aftersun, the debut feature by Charlotte Wells, both center on fatherdaughter relationships drawn from the directors own lives, exploring tenderness and trauma, love and loss with formal ingenuity and emotional force. Both films also feature powerhouse performancesPaul Mescal in Aftersun and Léa Seydoux in One Fine Morningthat challenge and reinvigorate routine cinematic portrayals of femininity, masculinity, and intimacy. Charlotte Wells s Aftersun is now playing in our theaters: HansenLøve and Wells partake in an extended conversation about the process of making art out of ones life, giving filmic shape to the workings of memory and time, reimagining the contours of womens cinema, and more. NYFF Talks are presented by HBO. More info: Subscribe: w
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