Léa Seydoux

"There is cruelty, there is tragedy, there is darkness, but there is also light and there is also joy," writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve says of her new film ...

It’s the child she had as she was preparing to make “One Fine Morning.” “My kid [is] 2½, and he’s baby-sat by another kid, so it’s the two of them right now,” she says, smiling. Life is never stopping, and that’s really the one thing that helps us cope with the difficulties of life.” It’s just part of my experience, and I thought it made sense to have it in the film because it’s part of so many people’s life — and so many women.” He would’ve been taken care of with more humanity, I think, if he had not got it in the very beginning. “I don’t feel like I am over it — I’m still recovering, if you can ever recover from the death of a beloved father. “In the past, it felt she was seen by male directors [as] a bit of a fantasy. My father suffered a lot in a way that probably he would not have had to suffer if it was a year later. I wish I had a very tender relationship with my father, so I was like, ‘Oh, Pascal Greggory can become my father.’ Then, suddenly, I have a father who’s tender.” “A lot of [her] characters are very sophisticated, very glamorous,” Hansen-Løve says. “I know that people have this image of me — ‘French glamour’ — and it’s really not [me]. With a reserved manner but a sensitive soulfulness, Sandra balances the euphoria of potential new love with the sad realization that her father’s cognitive decline will only get worse. “But because I [value] emotions, I don’t want to force it.