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Mia Hansen-Løve's (Bergman Island) films are often tidy in scale and urbane in milieu. They step lightly over their dramatic stakes, subordinating melodrama to the pace of life. But their unfussy presentation conceals hefty themes and a deep well of emotion. In Hansen-Løve's newest film, tireless indie mainstay of both French and American cinema Lea Seydoux stars as Sandra who works as a translator. Always the intermediary to another's expression in her professional life, as a single mother and a caretaker to her aging father, Sandra serves the needs of others at home, too. It's not until she reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an old friend who is now married, and a romance kindles between them that she glimpses the opportunity to have her needs come first. But what for her is a romance, for Clément may just be an extramarital dalliance.

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