Well...this certainly was a French film. If watching beautiful Europeans walk around the countryside, talk philosophy, and occasionally burst into tears, then Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come is for you. I joke, I joke, but the film is so top-heavy with weighty dialogue that it makes me wonder why this wasn't a stage play. Things to Come doesn't really do anything wrong: it's a finely acted and well-written piece about a middle-aged woman coming to terms with her life as it crumbles around her and rebuilds itself. Isabelle Huppert does a fine job with the material provided, but the script never gives her much of a chance to make an impression. But here's the thing: the film never does much to make me like it, either. I understand it's a stoic, restrained reflection on life, the universe, and such and such. But it's practically interchangeable with any number of similarly stoic, restrained art films making the rounds on the festival circuit. Things to Come occupies no real estate in my brain; I doubt I'll ever think of it again after today. Truth be told, I didn't find Hansen-Løve's last film, Eden (2014), very interesting either. But if I have to watch French people be boring, I'd rather do it to a Daft Punk soundtrack. Also, the Coen Brothers called: they want their mischievous, missing cat subplot back.
5/10
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