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title: "One Fine Morning"
year: 2022
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fi1m_id: "one-fine-morning"
imdb_id: "tt13482828"
tmdb_id: 747779
wikidata_id: "Q107466664"
fi1m_score: 82
critics_score: 84
critics_reviews: 17
published: "2026-09-10"
updated: "2026-09-18T08:38:08.799647+00:00"
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# One Fine Morning (2022)

Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve · 1h 52m · MPA R · Romance, Drama

## Identity

One Fine Morning

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/one-fine-morning
- **Type:** Film
- **Fi1m ID:** one-fine-morning
- **IMDb ID:** tt13482828
- **TMDB ID:** 747779
- **Wikidata ID:** Q107466664
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13482828/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/747779, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107466664

**Fi1m score: 82** · Critics 84 from 17 reviews

*In a sentence:* Her father is fading, her lover keeps forgetting he is married, and she carries the shopping for both

> Mia Hansen-Løve puts a woman between a father who is leaving her slowly and a lover who cannot decide to stay, and watches without fuss. Seydoux is quietly superb, Greggory better still; the affair is the weaker half, but see it.

## Synopsis

Sandra Kienzler (Léa Seydoux) is a translator in Paris, widowed, raising a young daughter, Linn (Camille Leban Martins), on her own. Her father, Georg (Pascal Greggory), is losing his mind to a neurodegenerative disease, and the family, including Françoise (Nicole Garcia) and Elodie (Sarah Le Picard), must decide where he can live and who will look after him. In the middle of the visits and the paperwork Sandra runs into Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an old friend, married, and the two begin an affair that neither of them has planned. Mia Hansen-Løve writes and directs, following Sandra between the care home, the school gate and a borrowed bed over the course of a year.

## Review

Mia Hansen-Løve makes films about people getting on with things, and *One Fine Morning* is the plainest of them. Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a translator in Paris, widowed, with a young daughter and a father, Georg (Pascal Greggory), whose mind is being taken from him by a neurodegenerative disease. She visits him, argues with the family about where he should live, and somewhere in all this runs into Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an old friend with a wife, and goes to bed with him. That is the whole film. It is quiet and it is honest, and it is one of the best things Hansen-Løve has made.

Greggory is the reason it works. He plays Georg as a courteous man who knows something is wrong and has decided to be polite about it. There is a moment, early on, when he loses the thread of a sentence and, rather than panic, waits for it to come back. It did not come back. We had braced ourselves for the illness and not for the good manners, and it was the manners that got at us. Nicole Garcia and Sarah Le Picard, as Françoise and Elodie, share the visits and the arguments about care homes, and none of the three is allowed a speech.

Seydoux has the harder job, because Sandra is mostly holding herself together, and holding together is not much to act. She does it with the body rather than the face. She cries in the street, briefly, and then goes to collect her daughter. She sits in a booth turning other people’s words into French while her own life goes unspoken. When the affair starts she is startled by her own appetite, and Seydoux lets that show as something close to embarrassment. It is a performance of small adjustments, and we did not catch her making one of them.

Denis Lenoir shoots Paris in daylight, on pavements and in stairwells and small kitchens, with no interest in making it pretty. The light is the light there happened to be. Mila Preli’s production design gives Sandra a flat that is cramped and lived in, and gives the institutions Georg passes through corridors that all look the same, which is rather the point. Judith de Luze keeps Sandra in the same coat for most of the film; she has other things to think about than clothes, and we believe it. Marion Monnier cuts the way Hansen-Løve’s films are always cut, ending a scene the moment it has said what it needs to and starting the next one already underway, and there is hardly any music to tell us how to feel.

The affair is where the film is thinner. Poupaud is good, warm and a little cowardly, and the scenes in bed are frank without being showy; the 15 certificate is earned there and nowhere else. But Clément leaves, comes back, leaves again, and by the third time we had started to count. The scenes between them are the same scene, several times, and Hansen-Løve seems to know this and to have decided that is how affairs are. She is right, but it does not make the middle hour any tighter. Sandra’s daughter Linn (Camille Leban Martins) is drawn more lightly than she might have been, and mostly stands in for what Sandra has to get home to.

Set against the director’s own work, this sits closer to *Father of My Children* and *Things to Come* than to *Bergman Island*: no artists talking about art, just a family dealing with a hospital. The story is drawn from her own life, and it shows in the details that nobody would invent, the forms, the waiting, the way grief has to fit around a school timetable. Most critics have been warm, and one or two have found it bleak. We did not. Sandra goes to the cinema, kisses someone she should not, and takes her father for a walk, and the film treats all three as reasons to keep going.

Watch it at home, on an evening when you are not expecting to be cheered up, and you may find you have been. At 112 minutes it is exactly as long as its year needs to be, and it does not end where you expect it to.

*Fi1m score 82, published 10 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

The reviews for One Fine Morning are warm and closely bunched, with the great majority positive and only one mixed. The praise lands first on Léa Seydoux, whom nearly every critic singles out for a performance built on restraint, several calling it the strongest work of her career. Behind her, most critics credit Mia Hansen-Løve for handling a father’s decline and a married lover’s arrival with a light touch and no sentimentality, letting feeling rise out of ordinary routines rather than plotted turns. Sight and Sound is unusual in placing Pascal Greggory’s father, rather than Seydoux, at the film’s centre.

The reservations are small and scattered: Paste finds the melancholy pervasive and the drama low-key, Deadline thinks the story slight if warm, and The Skinny notes a meandering plot that Seydoux has to hold together. Nobody argues that the film is anything other than accomplished; the disagreement is only over how much it adds up to.

## Straight answers

**Is One Fine Morning worth watching?**

*One Fine Morning* is worth watching for anyone who can sit with a quiet film about a father losing his mind and a daughter getting on with things, and we scored it 82. Pascal Greggory and Léa Seydoux are both superb; the affair that fills the middle hour repeats itself, but the film earns its ending.

**How long is One Fine Morning, and what is it rated?**

*One Fine Morning* runs 1h 52m and is rated R by the MPA in the US. It is a romance and drama film.

**Where can I watch One Fine Morning in the US?**

*One Fine Morning* is available to rent from Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV from $3.99. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is One Fine Morning, and is it suitable for children?**

*One Fine Morning* contains no violence and nothing frightening, but it is a 15 in the UK and R in the US for frank sex scenes between Seydoux and Melvil Poupaud. It is not for children, less for the sex than because it is a slow, adult film about dementia, care homes and grief; older teenagers may find it moving.

**How does One Fine Morning compare to Amour?**

*One Fine Morning* is the warmer and more forgiving of the two, following the daughter of a man with a degenerative illness out into Paris, where Michael Haneke's [*Amour*](https://film.one/film/amour) stays inside one flat with the couple and does not let up. *Amour* is the harder and more painful film, and the more rigorous; Hansen-Løve's is the one to choose if you want to be allowed to keep going.

**What should I watch after One Fine Morning?**

After *One Fine Morning*, try [*Amour*](https://film.one/film/amour) (2012, Fi1m 88): The harder, colder version of the same illness, in one Paris flat. Then [*The Father*](https://film.one/film/the-father) (2020, Fi1m 89): Dementia from the inside, with Hopkins and a flat that keeps changing shape; and [*Tokyo Story*](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story) (1953, Fi1m 92): Ozu’s parents visit their grown children; the quietest heartbreak in cinema.

### Reviews we read (29)

- **Time Out**, Anna Bogutskaya (5/5): The intimate drama explores romantic and familial love through a single mother's experiences with her father's decline and a new affair, avoiding sentimentality. Seydoux delivers a magnetic performance highlighting subtle emotional shifts. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/one-fine-morning-2022)
- **Empire**, Ian Freer (90/100, inferred): Hansen-Løve confirms her status as a filmmaker who finds magic in everyday life, family, and relationships. The film features a career-best performance from Seydoux and feels authentic and human. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/one-fine-morning/)
- **The AV Club**, Timothy Cogshell (A-): The critic finds the film consistent with Hansen-Løve's canon—quiet, languidly paced, and beautifully composed—about family, friends, lovers, disappointments, and passions. It is bittersweet but mostly bitter, and lovely in its intimate, authentic portrayal of everyday circumstances. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/one-fine-morning-movie-review-1850007390)
- **Evening Standard**, Charlotte O'Sullivan (85/100, inferred): Seydoux delivers an intoxicating performance as a woman balancing parental care and a passionate affair. The director excels at capturing hard-to-articulate emotions in a quiet, authentic portrait of family and personal life. [Read](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/one-fine-morning-movie-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love-b1073718.html)
- **Film Comment**, Clinton Krute (85/100, inferred): The critic praises the film's radiant yet clear-eyed portrayal of grief and new love through an autofictional lens. Hansen-Løve's direction is singled out for its precise capture of everyday rhythms and avoidance of sentimentality. [Read](https://www.filmcomment.com/one-fine-morning-mia-hansen-love-review/)
- **Los Angeles Times**, Justin Chang (85/100, inferred): The lucid, affecting film follows a widow through routines of caregiving and tentative romance, emphasizing incremental real-life drama over conventional arcs. Seydoux delivers one of the year's best performances through emotional reserve and naturalistic grace. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-09/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-løve)
- **The i Paper**, Christina Newland (85/100, inferred): The film offers a profoundly moving meditation on love, loss, and everyday life through subtle storytelling. Seydoux shines in a believable, sexy affair amid the challenges of family and illness. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-bond-mia-hansen-love-2272159)
- **Little White Lies**, Savina Petkova (3/4/5): Sandra navigates placing her father in a care home while rekindling an affair with a married man, with cinema offering moments of solace amid grief and desire. Hansen-Løve and Seydoux form an effective pairing in this intimate drama. [Read](https://lwlies.com/reviews/one-fine-morning)
- **Radio Times**, Emma Simmonds (80/100, inferred): Sandra, a single mother and translator, deals with her father's neurodegenerative disease while starting an affair with a married friend. Hansen-Løve handles heavy emotional material with a light touch, emphasizing resilience and the coexistence of desire and loss. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-qybtfn/one-fine-morning/)
- **Slant Magazine**, Pat Brown (80/100, inferred): The review highlights the film's deceptively straightforward storytelling and light visual touch, tracking Sandra's juggling of caregiving, work, romance, and parenting with incisiveness. Seydoux gives a lived-in performance that captures vulnerability and strength amid inevitable change. [Read](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/one-fine-morning-review-mia-hansen-love-lea-seydoux/)
- **The Independent** (80/100, inferred): The critic praises the film's tender, understated exploration of a widow rediscovering desire amid family caregiving duties. Hansen-Løve is commended for rooting the story in everyday realities and philosophical undertones without sentimentality. [Read](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/one-fine-morning-movie-review-lea-seydoux-b2319141.html)
- **Vulture** (80/100, inferred): Hansen-Løve's matter-of-fact approach allows emotions to emerge organically from the unfussy drama, capturing the rhythms of everyday life and the fleeting nature of happiness. Seydoux's performance conveys a woman holding back a universe of feelings amid trauma and desire. [Read](https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-one-fine-morning-with-lea-seydoux.html)
- **IndieWire**, David Ehrlich: The review calls it a sweetly affecting tale of a Parisian single mom who finds herself in the arms of a married friend, with Léa Seydoux lighting up the excellent new affair from Hansen-Løve. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-1234726170/)
- **RogerEbert.com**, Monica Castillo: The film quietly chronicles a single mother's juggling of caregiving for her ailing father, parenting her daughter, and navigating an on-and-off affair. Seydoux's performance captures the emotional reserve and quiet strength required amid everyday losses and small hopes. [Read](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-fine-morning-movie-review-2023)
- **Screen Daily**: A young mother copes with her father's gradual loss to illness while exploring new love, in a personal and empathetic drama. Seydoux gives a transcendent performance supported by strong turns from Greggory and others. [Read](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/one-fine-morning-cannes-review/5170688.article)
- **Sight and Sound**: The film portrays a single mother juggling care for her daughter and ailing father while beginning a new romance, in Hansen-Løve's characteristically understated style. Pascal Greggory's performance as the father anchors the emotional core. [Read](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/one-fine-morning-lea-seydoux-steps-out-mia-hansen-love-life-pilgrim)
- **The Guardian**, Peter Bradshaw: Hansen-Løve delivers a career high with a life-affirming portrait of loss and rebirth in this deeply personal story. The critic singles out Léa Seydoux’s masterclass in interiority as the widowed mother navigating new romance and her father’s decline. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/16/one-fine-morning-review-mia-hansen-love-lea-seydoux-moving-tale-of-love-and-loss)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, Jon Frosch: The critic praises the quietly miraculous collaboration between Hansen-Løve and Seydoux, which makes familiar material feel fresh and emotionally complex. It highlights the film's understated poignancy in depicting life's curveballs alongside unforeseen joys. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love-one-fine-morning-film-cannes-2022-1235148186/)
- **The New York Times**, Manohla Dargis (NYT Critic’s Pick): Hansen-Løve reveals the sublime in ordinary moments as a single mother balances caring for her declining father and beginning a new romance. The delicacy with which these events interplay with modest daily life gives the film its unexpected force. [Read](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/movies/one-fine-morning-review.html)
- **The Telegraph**: A treat that is quiveringly emotional, radiant and smart, with Léa Seydoux delivering a potential career-best performance. The critic praises the raw, believable affair and the detail of the writing that lifts it above cliché. [Read](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/one-fine-morning-review-sex-habits-parisian-middle-classes/)
- **The Times**, Kevin Maher (★★★★☆): A heartbreaking French melodrama of layered meaning with moments of ineffable sorrow and flashes of sensuality. The critic highlights Léa Seydoux’s surging intensity as she navigates her father’s degeneration and a passionate affair. [Read](https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/one-fine-morning-review-l-a-seydoux-is-surgingly-intense-in-this-sensual-drama-bn29j9k3q)
- **Variety**, Guy Lodge: Hansen-Løve returns to form with a gently moving character study of a single mother stretched between her child, sick father, and new lover. The film accrues subtle power through repetition and lived-in observation rather than tidy narrative arcs. [Read](https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/one-fine-morning-review-1235270271/)
- **The Playlist**, Carlos Aguilar (85/100, inferred): The critic highlights Léa Seydoux's versatile and incandescent performance in a layered portrait of a woman balancing grief, desire, and family duties. The film is described as bittersweet and engrossing in its depiction of impermanence and human emotion. [Read](https://theplaylist.net/one-fine-morning-review-a-marvelous-lea-seydoux-illuminates-mia-hansen-loves-new-drama-cannes-20220520/)
- **Collider**, Ross Bonaime (B+): The film is a quiet yet emotionally powerful story of love, loss, and family that packs an unexpected wallop. Léa Seydoux's graceful, honest performance as a woman navigating her father's decline and a new romance is singled out for praise. [Read](https://collider.com/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love/)
- **Eye for Film**, Richard Mowe (80/100, inferred): The critic praises the film's portrayal of complex life experiences and commends Léa Seydoux's subtle and empathetic performance as she navigates personal challenges. The director's ability to create fully-fledged characters and explore themes of relationships and mortality is highlighted. [Read](https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/one-fine-morning-2022-film-review-by-richard-mowe)
- **The Skinny**, Carmen Paddock (★★★★): The critic calls it a luminous character study with naturalism and effervescent dialogue. Seydoux's performance is singled out for holding the meandering plot together while navigating complex family and romantic dynamics. [Read](https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-releases/one-fine-morning)
- **Paste**, Jesse Hassenger (6.8/10): Mia Hansen-Løve's low-key drama about caregiving and an affair benefits greatly from Léa Seydoux's moody star power amid its bleak mood. The film's pervasive melancholy and understated handling of emotional conflicts are highlighted as key elements. [Read](https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/mia-hansen-love/one-fine-morning-review)
- **Deadline**, Damon Wise: The film offers a thoughtful character sketch of a single mother navigating love and family duties. It highlights Léa Seydoux's standout performance as the standout element in an otherwise slight but warm story. [Read](https://deadline.com/2022/05/one-fine-morning-cannes-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love-1235029342/)
- **The Wrap**, Katie Walsh: Hansen-Løve captures the challenges of caregiving and rediscovering love with grace and humanism. The critic singles out Léa Seydoux's remarkable performance for its honest and subtle emotional range. [Read](https://www.thewrap.com/one-fine-morning-film-review-mia-hansen-love-lea-seydoux/)

## Details

- **Director:** Mia Hansen-Løve
- **Director:** Mia Hansen-Løve
- **Screenplay:** Mia Hansen-Løve
- **Cinematography:** Denis Lenoir
- **Editor:** Marion Monnier
- **Production design:** Mila Preli
- **Costume design:** Judith de Luze
- **Producer:** David Thion, Philippe Martin, Gerhard Meixner
- **Cast:** Léa Seydoux as Sandra Kienzler; Pascal Greggory as Georg Kienzler; Melvil Poupaud as Clément; Nicole Garcia as Françoise; Camille Leban Martins as Linn; Sarah Le Picard as Elodie Kienzler; Pierre Meunier as Michel; Fejria Deliba as Leila
- **Runtime:** 1h 52m
- **Certificate (MPA):** R
- **Release (the US):** 9 December 2022
- **Genres:** Romance, Drama
- **Box office:** $1 million
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36aObn0Iges

## Where to watch in the US

- Amazon Prime Video: rent $3.99, hd
- Apple TV: rent $3.99, hd
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*Checked 2026-09-10.*

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## Awards

- European Film Award for Best Actress 2022: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated)

## If you liked this

- *Things to Come* (2016): Hansen-Løve and Huppert, a marriage ends, and nobody raises their voice once
- *Amour* (2012), Fi1m 88: The harder, colder version of the same illness, in one Paris flat — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/amour.md)
- *35 Shots of Rum* (2008): Claire Denis on a father and daughter who love each other and must part
- *The Father* (2020), Fi1m 89: Dementia from the inside, with Hopkins and a flat that keeps changing shape — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-father.md)
- *Tokyo Story* (1953), Fi1m 92: Ozu’s parents visit their grown children; the quietest heartbreak in cinema — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md)

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