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Movie review: To miss Léa Seydoux in 'One Fine Morning' is to miss one of the year's best performances

Melvil Poupaud, Camille Leban Martins and Léa Seydoux in the movie“ One Fine Morning.”.

Near the beginning and the end of "One Fine Morning," Mia Hansen-Love's lucid, affecting and radiantly intelligent new movie, Sandra (Léa Seydoux) drops by to see her father, Georg (Pascal Greggory). The months separating these two visits — though there have been many other visits in between — have aged them both, Georg more visibly. Already disoriented by his small Paris apartment in the early scenes, due to a neurological illness that is fast claiming his sight and his memory, he is, by the end, ever less certain of his surroundings or even the identities of his visitors. You see the passage of time in his distant gaze and slow-shuffling gait,

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