Another European film focused on ageing and the effects of dementia on the sufferer and family? After Michael Haneke’s Amour, Harry Macqueen’s Supernova and the Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve seen everything you need to see on the subject (and quite possibly dread watching anything more).

Happily, this heartfelt film from Mia Hansen-Løve offers something of a ray of hope in its story of a widowed single mum, her relationship with a married scientist, and the stresses she faces managing the welfare of her mentally declining father.

Léa Seydoux and Camille Leban Martins in One Fine Morning. Photo supplied.

Sandra (played by a radiant yet real Léa Seydoux) works as a freelance interpreter. Her father, Georg (a superb Pascal Greggory), is a celebrated Parisian academic and philosopher who lives with the rare, Alzheimer’s-like neurodegenerative disease Benson’s syndrome, which progressively takes away his ability to think straight.

At the start of the film, he is still living in his book-lined apartment, though he is frequently confused as to where he is. It is time, his...