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L'Événement (2021)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,60 121 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Alternative title: Happening

Country: France

Directed by: Audrey Diwan

Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein and Luàna Bajrami

IMDb score: 7,4 (13.681)

Releasedate: 24 November 2021

L'Événement plot

In the year 1963, Anne is an intelligent student with a bright future ahead of her. But the dream of finishing her studies and freeing herself from her social background shatters when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take action, even though she risks ending up in jail for doing so.

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Boenga

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Drama, thriller, and horror.
Cold, hard, and nerve-wracking.

The story of a young student somewhere in the 1960s in France who accidentally becomes pregnant. In order to continue working on building the future she dreams of, she wants to terminate the pregnancy.
The film follows her search for an abortion - which was prohibited there at that time - step by step, week by week.

Her mental state: the desperation, her fears, the stress, her insecurities. But also her courage and determination to persevere - despite the misunderstanding, ridicule, opposition, and absence of compassion from the few people she informs of her situation: some friends and a friend at school, the [ i]one night stand[/i], and two doctors.

Her physical suffering is heartbreaking. No horror movie can compete with that. From a injection to induce the abortion, to her own attempt with the metal rod, to the (pseudo) doctor who inserts a tube and the pain during the eventual miscarriage: it was freezing in the cinema .

Ultimately it comes to a relatively happy ending. It felt a bit like a painkiller for the viewer.

The main actress, unknown to me, is very good in her heavy role. And the way the camera follows her in close-up throughout the film makes her suffering and pain even more palpable.

Very strong drama, which after watching it makes me realize once again how lucky it is for many people to live here (Western Europe) and now.

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Fisico

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Strong film about the idea of abortion in France in the 1960s, perhaps extending to the general way of thinking in the Western world at that time. Abortion was punishable and that was well known. I was impressed by the taboo surrounding the theme. We weren't allowed to talk about it. Relatives and doctors were terrified. They seemed like dictatorial situations, real restrictions on even free expression of opinion. Unwanted pregnant mothers with abortion ideas were considered and treated as pariahs...

It happens to Anne too. Excellent role also from Vartolomei. Very strong acting where the camera was always close to the skin to bring out the oppressive atmosphere. Being unwanted pregnant seemed like a disease and, as Anne described it, a “disease that only affects women and condemns them to being stay-at-home mothers”.

Her search for medical help is intense after self-help failed. It leads her to illegal clandestine outlets. L'Événement is a poignant portrait of despair and hopelessness, in search of a renewed future for a promising girl. A few scenes focus on it, often suggestively, except for one (the toilet scene). As far as I'm concerned, it's along the lines of Never, rarely, sometimes, always.

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Unfortunately, this film about abortion in the 1960s is very topical. The film is not about the ethical questions you might ask, but about the harsh reality that abortion was simply illegal and a major health risk anyway. About the fact that a young woman sees her world collapsing and then cannot even turn to friends or family. Doctors cannot be trusted and even someone who would help could get a prison sentence. In the meantime, time continues to tick. In an environment (even more so in the 60s) where having a child - and especially as a young single mother - by definition meant becoming a housewife without any options for studies or career.

The camera is close to the main character. Anamaria Vartolomei carries the film without fail. It has become a film that makes it so clear that the impact of abortion is enormous and is not just something you can solve in 5 minutes because you accidentally became pregnant. A harsh reality that is clearly depicted. Hopefully those days will never come back.

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