Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMia Hansen-Løve, the French writer-director whose last film “Bergman Island” competed at last year’s Cannes, is back at the festival with “One Fine Morning,” a romance drama headlined by Lea Seydoux.
The movie world premiered at Directors’ Fortnight and has earned stellar reviews with Variety‘s Guy Lodge describing it as a “wistful, wandering character study” and “gently moving reflection on parenting one’s children and parents at once,” which marks Hansen-Løve’s “returns to French, and to form.” “One Fine Morning” stars Seydoux as a long-single mother who’s coping with her father’s degenerative illness while embarking on a new, uncertain romance with a charming, yet emotionally unavailable man (Melvil Poupaud).
Hansen-Love spoke to Variety about her experience directing Seydoux in this personal movie, taking on new challenges, her experience at Cannes and what she’s working on next.
Les Films du Losange is handling international sales on the movie which was produced by Les Films Pelleas, in co-production with Razor Film Produktion. How autobiographical is “One Fine Morning”?
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