“One Fine Morning” A duet of endings and beginnings

memory of things, their patterns

"I feel more like Dad when I look at the books than when I see him. I can see his humanity through the books he chooses. Each book has its own color, and when you put them together it becomes a portrait of Dad."

Sandra tells her daughter, Lynn, in front of the bookshelf left by her father, who was a philosopher. When Sandra's mother (Nicole Garcia) suggests that she throw away the book, she gets angry and says she would rather burn it than throw it away. The books my father loved, the records he loved. The pain of those left behind in the emptying room. Sandra tries to resist this unbearable sadness. However, more than resisting sadness, Georg feels that his father himself is present in the books he has collected. The books that were left behind may perhaps know more than anyone else about the true nature of his father when he was healthy.

Like the room where Ingmar Bergman lived in Bergman Island (21), or Faure Island itself, Mia Hansen-Love reflects on the things that the man loved. Memories and souls dwell in matter. The feeling of those left behind shaping their memories into matter. Maybe it lacks accuracy. However, this feeling is deeply understandable.

“One Fine Morning.”

Georg's words lose their clarity. However, as a philosopher, Georg loved words, and even though he lost the clarity of his mind, he still continued to weave words as if he were always searching for something. Mia Hansen-Love lost her father, a philosopher, during the pandemic. It is said that the bookshelf of ``One Fine Morning'' is a copy of the book left by her father. Pascal Gregory, who plays Georg, plays the audio left behind by his sick father.

"What my father maintained until the end was his civility. Pascal captured a sense of what kind of person my father was. It's a wonderful interpretation." (Mia Hansen-Love)*2

Georg's fragmentary words are almost like poetry. Georg not only loses his speech, but also his vision. The scene in which Sandra goes to see a painting by Claude Monet in an art museum is not only the artist's imprint on rivers and water filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love, but also her father's words, which have lost their clarity and become patterns. It matches the vision. Furthermore, the colors of Monet's impression paintings match Sandra's current state of life, which is lost in uncertainty.

life won't wait