“He’s the love of my life!” “Since you met, you haven’t stopped crying.”

Post-New Wave French director Mia Hansen-Løve got her start at 17, acting in Olivier Assayas’s Late August, Early September. Then, she took a page from the book of the Nouvelle Vague greats like Jean-Luc Godard and became a film critic for Cahier du Cinema before embarking on her directing career. Her first film was released in 2007, establishing her as one of the most exciting new directors in French film.

Hansen-Løve now has three films under her belt, and as a sidebar to their Summer in France series, the TIFF Bell Lightbox will be screening a retrospective of her work, with the director in attendance. This will be the first complete retrospective of her films shown in North America, and a chance to celebrate one of the rare female directors working in the Nouvelle Vague auteur tradition.

From August 23rd-25th, see The Father of My Childrena Special Jury Prize winner at Cannes, and a tribute to the independent art-cinema producer who encouraged Hansen-Løve to make her first film, Tout est pardonée, about a father who leaves his family and becomes entwined in a destructive spiral of drugs and alcohol, and Goodbye First Love, which follows Camille from her first love at 15, and devastating heartbreak, to life as a young architecture student who is happily with someone else, until her first boyfriend reappears.

The final film screening is the Filmmaker Carte Blanche selection, in which the feature director picks a film to screen. Hansen-Løve has selected Un enfant dans le foule by Gérard Blain, considered one of the lost masterpieces of 70s French cinema.

Fathers and Daughters: The Films of Mia Hansen-Love
Aug. 23-25
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~ Haley Cullingham