--- title: "One Fine Morning: the reviews" canonical: "https://film.one/film/one-fine-morning/reviews" title_page: "https://film.one/film/one-fine-morning" critics_score: 84 critics_reviews: 17 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # One Fine Morning (2022): what the critics said Critics' score 84 from 17 reviews: 16 positive, 1 mixed, 0 negative. 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. ## Time Out — Anna Bogutskaya Rating 5/5. 21 May 2022. 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 the review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/one-fine-morning-2022) ## Empire — Ian Freer Fi1m's normalised score 90/100 (inferred from the text). 14 April 2023. 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 the review](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/one-fine-morning/) ## The AV Club — Timothy Cogshell Rating A-. 24 January 2023. 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 the review](https://www.avclub.com/one-fine-morning-movie-review-1850007390) ## Evening Standard — Charlotte O'Sullivan Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 14 April 2023. 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 the review](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/one-fine-morning-movie-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love-b1073718.html) ## Film Comment — Clinton Krute Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 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 the review](https://www.filmcomment.com/one-fine-morning-mia-hansen-love-review/) ## Los Angeles Times — Justin Chang Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 9 December 2022. 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 the review](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 Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 13 April 2023. 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 the review](https://inews.co.uk/culture/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-bond-mia-hansen-love-2272159) ## Little White Lies — Savina Petkova Rating 3/4/5. 13 April 2023. 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 the review](https://lwlies.com/reviews/one-fine-morning) ## Radio Times — Emma Simmonds Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 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 the review](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-qybtfn/one-fine-morning/) ## Slant Magazine — Pat Brown Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 10 September 2022. 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 the review](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/one-fine-morning-review-mia-hansen-love-lea-seydoux/) ## The Independent Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 13 April 2023. 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 the review](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/one-fine-morning-movie-review-lea-seydoux-b2319141.html) ## Vulture Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 27 January 2023. 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 the review](https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-one-fine-morning-with-lea-seydoux.html) ## IndieWire — David Ehrlich 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-1234726170/) ## RogerEbert.com — Monica Castillo 27 January 2023. 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 the review](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-fine-morning-movie-review-2023) ## Screen Daily 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/one-fine-morning-cannes-review/5170688.article) ## Sight and Sound 23 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](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 16 April 2023. 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 the review](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 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](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 Rating NYT Critic’s Pick. 8 December 2022. 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 the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/movies/one-fine-morning-review.html) ## The Telegraph 13 April 2023. 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 the review](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/one-fine-morning-review-sex-habits-parisian-middle-classes/) ## The Times — Kevin Maher Rating ★★★★☆. 14 April 2023. 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 the review](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 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/one-fine-morning-review-1235270271/) ## The Playlist — Carlos Aguilar Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://theplaylist.net/one-fine-morning-review-a-marvelous-lea-seydoux-illuminates-mia-hansen-loves-new-drama-cannes-20220520/) ## Collider — Ross Bonaime Rating B+. 10 September 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://collider.com/one-fine-morning-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love/) ## Eye for Film — Richard Mowe Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/one-fine-morning-2022-film-review-by-richard-mowe) ## The Skinny — Carmen Paddock Rating ★★★★. 10 April 2023. 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 the review](https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-releases/one-fine-morning) ## Paste — Jesse Hassenger Rating 6.8/10. 27 January 2023. Festival review. 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 the review](https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/mia-hansen-love/one-fine-morning-review) ## Deadline — Damon Wise 20 May 2022. Festival review. 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 the review](https://deadline.com/2022/05/one-fine-morning-cannes-review-lea-seydoux-mia-hansen-love-1235029342/) ## The Wrap — Katie Walsh 26 January 2023. 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 the review](https://www.thewrap.com/one-fine-morning-film-review-mia-hansen-love-lea-seydoux/) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Our review: https://film.one/film/one-fine-morning.md