If you have never or hardly had contact with French cinema: The wonderfully light-footed “Alles was geht” with Isabelle Huppert is a very nice introduction.
“Alles was geht” on February 24th from 8:15 pm on ARTE; The film is available in the ARTE media library until March 2nd.
If you read through the table of contents for “Everything that comes”, you can get the wrong idea:
Philosopher Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is being left by her husband and colleague Heinz (André Marcon) for someone else, the mother (Edith Scob) has to go to a nursing home and Nathalies Verlag wants to terminate her contract. Curtain up for a very heavy, cerebral chunk of drama or for one of those crude, dull French tabloid comedies?
Corn non! Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Alles was geht” is a film that feels airy, like a breath of spring, even though it’s about tough topics; a film in which philosophical thoughts are on an equal footing with everyday matters; a film that is not just one or the other. And Isabelle Huppert plays a woman who is neither a philistine nor a radical subversive.
The 4.5-star review for “Everything that comes”
Anyone who speaks French should have even more pleasure in “Everything that comes”. ARTE shows the film in the media library in German as well as in the original language, but unfortunately only without German subtitles.
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