Cannes 2025: In "The Coming of the Future," Suzanne Lindon plays a free woman ahead of her time

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One wonders why Cédric Klapisch's new feature film has such an abstract and unglamorous title, The Coming of the Future . Presented at Cannes, out of competition, this film is the complete opposite, taking a detached look at things, without taking itself seriously (sometimes stating the obvious), assuming its fantasy and lightness, thanks to a cast of inspired actors. This fresco juxtaposes two temporalities: on the one hand, the end of the ^19th century, with the advent of photography and the rise of Impressionism; on the other, the contemporary era in all its schizophrenia.

The impressive screenplay, written with Santiago Amigorena, is worthy of a toy box (since it is about a house filled with memories), containing almost all the ingredients of Klapischian cinema: societal, feminist, emancipatory questions, all wrapped up in a few love stories.

Four distant cousins, played by Vincent Macaigne, Julia Piaton, Zinedine Soualem, and Abraham Wapler, find themselves managing the estate of an ancestor who lived at the end of the ^19th century, Adèle Vermillard (Suzanne Lindon). Surprise: they'd never heard of her. Above all, her house, abandoned for years, could be demolished due to a major real estate project duly equipped with its environmentalist alibi (solar panels included).

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