Fleeting joys in the sublime ‘One Fine Morning’

Like maximum things, the title of Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning” sounds higher in French.

“Un Beau Matin” doesn’t have that identical rom-commy ring. But it’s kind of excellent to assume a moviegoer, anticipating a Hallmark film, taking walks as a substitute into Hansen-Løve’s sublimely melancholic drama about the ineffable impermanence of existence.

For every body, though, there’s a wistful, warm feeling whilst wandering into a Hansen-Løve movie. Hers are sensitive dramas keenly tuned to the rhythm of every day lifestyles, and “One Fine Morning” is her maximum radiant movie yet.

Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a Parisian unmarried mom with a young daughter, Linn (Camille Leban Martins), and a father, Georg (tenderly performed through Pascal Greggory), whose reminiscence goes due to Benson’s syndrome. As Sandra and her mother (Nicole Garcia), lengthy divorced from Georg, make arrangements for him to enter a nursing domestic, a dormant a part of Sandra’s life (Linn’s father died five years earlier) is rekindled by means of an surprising romance with an antique friend, Clément (Melvil Poupaud).Though “One Fine Morning” sways among children and vintage age, sensuality and disability, it’s no longer a neat dichotomy. Hansen-Løve’s film, which first moved moviegoers at final year’s Cannes Film Festival and which arrives in theaters Friday, is greater gracefully involved with the fidelity of loss. Loved ones come and pass, painfully; each the an increasing number of disoriented Georg and Clément, unhappily married however no longer separated, are there one moment and long gone the next. In the movie’s first scene, Georg fumbles with the lock to his the front door, while Sandra waits on the opposite aspect, trying to manual him.Hansen-Løve, who additionally wrote the script, is a devoted naturalist whose memories build with the constant accumulation of quotidian element and shift with the unexpected undulations of relationships. As inside the exceptional of her movies but extra so, “One Fine Morning” gathers a transferring poignancy without you ever understanding it. One moment, you may feel as though the narrative awareness is drifting or sliding into repetition; the next, you can rarely imagine a greater cohesive and affecting encapsulation of bittersweet human truths.

Much of this is owed to the smooth overall performance by a never-better Seydoux. For an actress able to such glamour, it’s a powerfully unadorned overall performance, packed with joy and sadness, regularly on the equal time. Scenes of “One Fine Morning” toggle among hospital wards and Sandra’s apartment. Seydoux plays the top-spinning lower back-and-forth among love affair and aged care with calm composure and occasional eruptions of emotion.Words, we feel, are fading. One of the obligations of Sandra and her mother is to kind through the substantial library of her father, a former philosophy professor. The heaps of books are a type of physical manifestation of what Georg — described earlier than his downturn as passionate about clarity and rigor — is dropping and leaving behind. Sandra, herself a translator, grows more and more aware that the same fate, inevitably is hers. But if to love is to lose, it’s a bargain really worth making — for a “beau matin” and extra. In this achingly luminous drama drawn from the acquainted stuff of each day lifestyles, it’s a nurse who puts it most succinctly: “Make the most of being together.”