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As her new film One Fine Morning is released, Mia Hansen-Løve talks about the power of dreams and nightmares, and working with the inimitable Léa Seydoux

Mia Hansen-Løve's One Fine Morning is partly an empathetic study of family and partly a retreading of topics better covered elsewhere.

24/11/2021 - British writer-director Malachi Smyth brings a potential cinematic first to Tallinn Black Nights – a “singing” heist film

24/11/2021 - British writer-director Malachi Smyth brings a potential cinematic first to Tallinn Black Nights – a “singing” heist film

24/11/2021 - British writer-director Malachi Smyth brings a potential cinematic first to Tallinn Black Nights – a “singing” heist film

Gilles Taurand (the winner of the Best Original Screenplay César in 1995, who has since received three further nominations within this category, and four for the Best Adapted Screenplay trophy) based upon Catherine Poulain’s novel of the same name, the story homes in on 35-year-old Lili who decides to leave everything behind to go fishing in the far North. This “man’s world” will see her negotiating her fears, her physical exhaustion and nature unleashed, but above all, s...

Why this might not seem so easy By her own admission writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s style is difficult to define. She strives for filmmaking ‘transparency’, avoiding showy techniques in favour of a more subtle, understated approach – one that’s deeply felt and personal. Her films foreground character and mood, though often contain sudden, transformative incidents. They are something like the films of French New Wave director Eric Rohmer: intelligent and dialogu...