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Le Bonheur (1965)

Drama | 79 minutes
3,65 118 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 79 minuten

Alternative title: Happiness

Country: France

Directed by: Agnès Varda

Stars: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot and Olivier Drouot

IMDb score: 7,6 (11.366)

Releasedate: 10 February 1965

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Le Bonheur plot

"Only a woman could dare to make this film."

A happily married carpenter falls in love with a young operator. He discovers that strangely enough, the joy of this new relationship does not disturb his close bond with wife and child in any way. He is happier than ever. When he confesses to his wife that he has a second love, she seems to accept his statement that this should not harm their marriage at first. However, it soon becomes apparent in a dramatic way that this is not the case.

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wendyvortex

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Glossy sixties film: at best a wonderfully colorful world where Brigitte Bardot and Dalida are eternally young...at worst we get associations with Peek & Cloppenburg, Roosvicee and "Good bread deserves Bona".

Plot is also on a kind of photo novel-like something and the moral remains unclear for a long time.

Certainly has something intriguing, very nicely made, but at the same time superficial.

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Ferdydurke

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A happy marriage, children's dolls, a picnic in the park, another sweetheart: it can't be finished, le Bonheur, and Varda smears it with a certain casualness, but also thumbs-thick with lots of flowers and cheerful colors across the screen. So that it gets something very emphatic again.

Godard came out with Une Femme Mariée in 1964, and Varda seems to refer a bit to that film, which is one of Godard's best works, with the fragmented shots of Francois's wife and lover alternating, and the signs and inscriptions such as 'temptation', 'assurance' and 'confiance' that appear on screen with some regularity and that apparently refer to the actions or the mental state of the protagonists.

The dramatic turn seems to herald a U-turn, but it looks like it's nothing more than a ripple in family happiness. At least that's what the beautiful ending sequence seems to suggest. It gives le Bonheur a curious, somewhat bitter aftertaste.

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Fisico

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My best Varda yet. What a great fun movie! Very colorful with all that floral splendor and the cheerful dresses of Thérèse. A real summer film and actually also a film to make you happy. Varda manages to give every shot something extra. Something nostalgic, dreamy, innocent and cheerful. The picturesque decor, strongly supported by some cheerful classical music, makes you think you are in la douce France. The supreme family happiness is visually perfectly portrayed.

And yet François wants more and looks for carnal pleasure elsewhere. And he thinks it's good that his lusts are also satisfied to the maximum. He says it without hesitation, with an almost logical explanation that you would almost think, what kind of a narrow mind am I?

Now, no confrontation with all this adultery. I don't think Varda is that way. And yet I had to frown how the harmonious family happiness is simply continued after Thérèse's death. It's like trading in a pair of broken shoes for others. One for the other, and life goes on. Idyllic, but at the same time very strange. In all my open-mindedness, it is difficult to pass a concrete judgment on François. If only life were that simple...

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