One Fine Morning (French: Un beau matin) is a 2022 romantic drama film written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve.
It stars Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud and Nicole Garcia.
Sandra Kienzler, a widow with a young daughter, Linn, works as a translator and interpreter in Paris.
She cares for her father, Georg, a former philosophy teacher who has been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease called Benson's syndrome, which affects his cognitive abilities and sight.
At a park, Sandra runs into her late husband's friend Clément, a married chemical cosmologist who has returned to Paris after an expedition at the North Pole.
She says it is time to put him in a nursing home, where he will receive the full-time care he needs—to which Sandra agrees.
They encounter problems in placement, as public homes may take up to two years to vacate a room and private ones are too expensive.
She tells her mother and sister about her findings during Christmas dinner, and that one of the notebooks had a title written in German: "An einem schönen Morgen" (lit.
In September 2020, it was announced that Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, and Nicole Garcia had joined the cast of the film, with Mia Hansen-Løve directing from a screenplay she wrote.
[1][8] It was released theatrically in France on 5 October 2022 by Les films du Losange and in Germany on 8 December 2022 by Weltkino Filmverleih.
[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100, based on 39 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".