What a pleasure to review Mia Hansen-Løve’s directorial debut, All Is Forgiven, released in France in 2007, winning some awards at Cannes, etc., but never released in the United States and long un-see-able. That’s now changed. She’s one of my favorite film-makers, with an impressive list of credits over the last decade: Father of My Children, Eden (which I reviewed), Goodbye First Love (haven’t reviewed, but love it), Things to Come (which I reviewed), Maya, and this year’s Bergman’s Island. She’s the cat’s pajamas, to quote Keeley and Roy Kent. Here’s my little birthday post about Mia Hansen-Løve.
And here’s my review of All Is Forgiven, where I was able to loop in John Keats’ concept of Negative Capability, which represents a good day’s work as far as I’m concerned.
