The Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve: Candour and Vulnerability

Kate Ince

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

The Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve

Candour and Vulnerability

Kate Ince

In the series Visionaries: Thinking Through Female Filmmakers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474447669

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The first study of the films of Mia Hansen-Løve

Sets out Hansen-Løve’s place in contemporary French and international cinema as an acclaimed young auteur with a distinctive vision of growing up, the importance of work, and family and romantic love
Argues that Hansen-Løve’s sensitivity to her protagonists’ vulnerability and resilience makes her a filmer of the ethical, particularly in tune with ‘the ethical turn’ that has marked Western cultures and thought since the 1990s
Brings out the philosophical character of Hansen-Løve’s approach to time, narrative and human subjectivity

Since 2007 Mia Hansen-Løve has directed a series of meditative film dramas about families, love, vulnerability and growing up, all of them exceptionally attentive to film’s ability to convey the passing of time, separation and loss. As the first book-length study of the films of Mia Hansen-Løve, this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership. Exploring her move from acting, via criticism, to directing, the book first investigates the complexity of her situation as a female auteur based in France. With detailed readings of her films up to Maya (2018), it then examines the precariousness of their families, their emphasis on vulnerability, failure, adversity and resilience, the particular candour of Hansen-Løve’s filming style, and the vital parts played by music and time in her cinema. It concludes that her cinema may best be regarded as a thoroughly contemporary one, distinguished by a tendency to transcendence that is both ethical and aesthetic.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Mia Hansen-Løve, transnational auteur Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Fracture familiale Open Access Download PDF	20
2 Vulnerable people Open Access Download PDF	42
3 Adversity and resilience: the post-secular ethic of vocation Open Access Download PDF	63
4 Candid camera, or an aesthetic of transcendence Open Access Download PDF	86
5 Lost in music Open Access Download PDF	110
6 The rivers of time Open Access Download PDF	131
Conclusion: contemporaneity and the ethic of transcendence Open Access Download PDF	147
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	154
Filmography Open Access Download PDF	161
Index Open Access Download PDF	163

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 176
Illustrations
- Other: 14 colour illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: April 19, 2022
ISBN: 9781474447669