France,
1965, 79 min
(Alternative: 77 min)
Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaComposer:
Jean-Michel DefayeCast:
Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Sandrine Drouot, Marc Eyraud, Sylvia Saurel, Paul Vecchiali, Marie-France BoyerVOD (3)
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Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world. (Criterion)
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