In 1995 Vienna, a young family begins to rupture as the dad sinks into drug addiction. Just as he bottoms out, the film makes a daring 11-year leap forward to deal with the fallout in Paris. Directed when she was only 25, Mia Hansen-Løve’s astonishingly assured and deeply empathetic debut feature finds many of her key authorial hallmarks already in place, from her singular ability to capture the passage of time to her unerring ear for great music. (MK)
