Un beau matin

Sandra, a young single mother, lives in Paris. Her life is full of caring for her young daughter and her sick father, whose condition is rapidly deteriorating. Suddenly, a new hobby appears in her life - the married scientist Cleman. Read more "One Wonderful Morning" by the French director Mia Hansen-Louvet is a quiet, almost transparent film about a woman's life. Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a translator who raises her daughter, takes care of her father, who is suffering from a rare neurodegenerative syndrome, and tries to fix her personal life. There are no pronounced conflicts in the film, it does not play with strong emotions, and thus it resorts to sensual realism: all the feelings that are conveyed in the frame by minimalistic means are authentic and make up a single picture of an ordinary life, not burdened by the extraordinary. The film is surprisingly gentle on the topic of memory. Memory is now brought into the field of the political, instead, Hansen-Leve is interested in its private side: how we remember our relatives, what they would like to be remembered about, how their lives are manifested through personal things. This film fascinates and soothes, which is rare these days.