Film Review – Things to Come

There are few actors like Isabelle Huppert. She’s a veteran of the industry, performing on film and television for 45 years, yet, unlike most of her contemporaries, she keeps trying to challenge herself, taking unconventional roles and working with sophisticated directors. She remains a fresh screen presence, and her experience is the engine that drives “Things to Come,” a seemingly mild story of domestic implosion that’s turned into something special by Huppert, who delivers an emotionally complex performance while maintaining her character’s tight command of social exposure. Writer/director Mia Hansen-Love isn’t big on sharp turns of plot, but she has Huppert and her drive to keep a potential cartoon summation of life’s cruelties as human and subtle as possible. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com