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Le Bonheur ("Happiness") is a 1965 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. The film is associated with the French New Wave and won two awards at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Jury Grand Prix.
May 16, 1997 · Le Bonheur is a delicious sugar-coated bonbon with a bitter centre. What disturbs the viewer most is the cool unjudging gaze of Varda's camera: the characters are naive but not cruel, and when tragedy strikes it comes about from a childlike pursuit of happiness.
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- Drama, Romance
- Agnès Varda
- 1997-05-16
A New Wave classic by the only female director of the movement, Le bonheur explores the themes of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world. The film follows a married man who has an affair with a postal worker, while his wife and daughter remain oblivious to his betrayal.
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Jun 29, 2022 · Happiness (Le Bonheur)Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival 1965-Happiness, we search for it, we find it, we repeat it. But it’s all only held together by a thr...
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- Film Weeks
Mar 7, 2019 · 9.5K views 4 years ago. ...more. Happiness, we search for it, we find it, we repeat it. But it’s all only held together by a thread…A carpenter leads a happy life with his wife and their chi...
A film about a man who has an affair and two wives, one of whom commits suicide. The film explores the meaning of happiness and the cost of pursuing it in modern society.
Agnès Varda’s color-saturated third feature is a thorough takedown of the nuclear family, which deconstructs the one-way relationship of a husband and wife and their apparently idyllic life together. Bold, sun-drenched and provoking, Le bonheur is a proto-feminist time bomb that’s ready to detonate.
