Mia Hansen Løve on One Fine Morning, NYFF60

Director Mia HansenLøve discusses One Fine Morning, a Main Slate selection of this years festival, moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. Few filmmakers are as adept at exploring the contours of modern love and grief as Mia HansenLøve (Bergman Island), whose intensely poignant and deeply personal latest drama stars Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a professional translator and single mother at a crossroads. Her father (Pascal Greggory), rapidly deteriorating from a neurological illness, will soon require facility care, and her new lover (Melvil Poupaud) is a married dad whose unavailability only seems to draw her nearer to him, despiteor because ofthe fact that shes going through an overwhelming time in her life. HansenLøve, so finely observant of the small nuances of human interaction, creates, in harmonious concert with a magnificent Seydoux, a complicated portrait of a woman torn between romantic desire and familial tragedy that is a marvel of emotional and formal economy.