“Beautiful Day” by Mia Hansen Love – Sounds simple but loud – Kulturnytt on P1

Title: A Beautiful Day (Original title: “Un beau matin”)
Direction and script: Mia Hansen Love
Throw: Lea Seydoux, Melville Poubaud, Camille Laban Martins, Pascal Gregory and others.
Type: drama
degree : 4 out of 5

Single mom Sandra She serves her eight-year-old daughter’s new boyfriend at the kitchen table in Mia Hansen Love’s “Beautiful Day.” What distinguishes the scene is the lack of drama, the table is small and simple, the daughter has a sloppy ponytail, and the mother, wonderfully played by Lea Seydoux, in a light blue blouse, cut like a young Mia Farrow, is waiting in the doorway. No jealousy, no nervousness, no dizziness.

It’s as if someone took a piece of life and cut it in the movie. The colors are sunlight yellow, pale blue, and pale orange. Parisian everyday life, but subdued and unimpressive. As far as you can get from Amelie of Montmartre.

And Mia Hansen Love does not hide the fact that her films are close to her life. Eden was about a brother who was a disc jockey during the techno era, “The Day After” was inspired by her mother’s divorce, and now she’s making a movie based on her father’s fate. The philosophy teacher who can no longer read or find his front door.

Reproducing life the way Mia Hansen Love does must be tedious, but the apparent slowness and simplicity create a kind of fantasy hyper-realism. She dares to remain uncomfortable, and we see what it looks like when someone who hasn’t touched another aphrodisiac for years, strokes the bare skin of a whale’s hand. It’s beautiful.

Nina Assarnoy
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