Now, in this Berlin Silver Bear winner from Mia Hansen - Løve — writer - director of such intimate films as Father of My Children and Goodbye First Love — Huppert delivers a note - perfect warm and wry performance as a philosophy teacher whose life is defined by ideas rather
than circumstance, a woman of substance — intellectual, emotional, financial — who faces unexpected constraints and
freedoms when the assumed
certainties of her domestic life unravel.