RomanceDrama

One Fine Morning

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Release Date : 2022-10-05

Language :EnglishFrenchGermanPortugueseSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Films PelléasRazor Film ProduktionARTE France CinémaBRMUBIDauphin FilmsCN6 Productions

Production Country : FranceGermanyUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Sandra Kienzler

Original Name : Léa Seydoux

Gender : Female

Character Name : Georg Kienzler

Original Name : Pascal Greggory

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clément

Original Name : Melvil Poupaud

Gender : Male

Character Name : Françoise

Original Name : Nicole Garcia

Gender : Female

Character Name : Linn

Original Name : Camille Leban Martins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elodie Kienzler

Original Name : Sarah Le Picard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Michel

Original Name : Pierre Meunier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Leila

Original Name : Fejria Deliba

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacqueline Kienzler

Original Name : Jacqueline Hansen-Løve

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soeur de Georg

Original Name : Catherine Vinatier

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mari d'Elodie

Original Name : Samuel Achache

Gender : Male

Character Name : Enfant d'Elodie

Original Name : Esther Wajeman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Enfant d'Elodie

Original Name : Rose Wajeman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ancienne élève

Original Name : Elsa Guedj

Gender : Female

Character Name : Collègue interprète

Original Name : Xavier Combe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Collègue interprète

Original Name : Jana Klein

Gender : Female

Character Name : Vétéran Omaha

Original Name : Charles Norman Shay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médecin Georg

Original Name : Margaux Garzaro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Infirmière Hôtel-Dieu

Original Name : Маша Кондакова

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chef de service Bretonneau

Original Name : Ary Gabison

Gender : Male

Character Name : Directrice Ehpad Courbevoie

Original Name : Pascale Oudot

Gender : Male

Character Name : Directeur Jardins de Montmartre

Original Name : Julien Flick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médecin Linn

Original Name : Sharif Andoura

Gender : Male

Character Name : Collègue Clément

Original Name : Stéphanie Pasquet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ancien élève

Original Name : Jeremy Lewin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ancien élève

Original Name : Arno Nguyen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mère d'Esther

Original Name : Norah Krief

Gender : Male

Character Name : Père d'Esther

Original Name : Philippe Bertin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fils de Clément

Original Name : Vasco Villaverde

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-04-18

"Sandra" (Léa Seydoux) is at a crossroads in her life. Her ageing, academic, father (the scene-dominating Pascal Greggory) has been diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative disease that is pretty much robbing him of his quality of life. He is an acclaimed philosopher who finds his increasing lack of ability to think and to remember exasperating. Meantime, she also reconnects with her old friend "Clément" (Melvil Poupaud). He delights in being called a cosmo-chemist (he studies meteoric dust using a rather impressive mass spectrometer). It's clear from the outset that these two have the hots for each other and, despite the fact that he is married with a young son, they embark of quite a lively affair. She is juggling her affection for him while struggling to find an adequate facility for her father; he is having a crisis of conscience as he falls more deeply in love but has his own family to consider. That's about the height of it. Even with the underlying - and rather depressing - analysis of the care provision for her elderly and increasingly failing father adding some gravitas to the film, the story itself is all a rather lacklustre drama centred around two people who are actually quite selfish. They both have responsibilities and as you'd expect, as their relationship develops, these become predictable millstones that we can anticipate all too readily. It has aspects of a soap to it, and though both leads are easy on the eye, I don't think either really have enough here to allow their characters to develop nor to really engage with an audience that has seen this sort of narrative unfold many, many, times before. It looks good - the filming and performances from the younger children are very natural, but at the end I was wondering what was different here. It will work fine on the television, but I doubt I will remember much about it in a fortnight.