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Le Bonheur

Original title: Le bonheur
  • 19651965
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 20m
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7.6/10
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Le Bonheur (1965)
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François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.
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    • Agnès Varda
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Jean-Claude Drouot
    • Marie-France Boyer
    • Marcelle Faure-Bertin
    • Agnès Varda
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Jean-Claude Drouot
    • Marie-France Boyer
    • Marcelle Faure-Bertin
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    • 47User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
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    Videos1

    Bande-annonce [OV]
    Trailer 2:22
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    Photos66

    Le Bonheur (1965)
    Marie-France Boyer and Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Le Bonheur (1965)
    Marie-France Boyer in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Sandrine Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Marie-France Boyer and Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Le Bonheur (1965)
    Claire Drouot, Jean-Claude Drouot, and Sandrine Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
    Jean-Claude Drouot in Le Bonheur (1965)
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    Jean-Claude Drouot
    Jean-Claude Drouot
    • François Chevalier
    Marie-France Boyer
    Marie-France Boyer
    • Émilie Savignard
    Marcelle Faure-Bertin
      Manon Lanclos
      Sylvia Saurel
      Marc Eyraud
      • J. Forestier - le frère de François
      Christian Riehl
      Paul Vecchiali
      • Paul
      Yvonne Dany
        Claire Drouot
        • Thérèse Chevalier
        • (uncredited)
        Olivier Drouot
        • Pierrot Chevalier
        • (uncredited)
        Sandrine Drouot
        • Gisou Chevalier
        • (uncredited)
          • Agnès Varda
          • Agnès Varda
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        • Trivia
          The movie François and Therese are going to see starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau is Viva Maria! (1965)
        • Goofs
          Therese states that they can see a new movie with Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot. That movie would have to be Viva Maria. However, Viva Maria was released in November 1965 while this film was released in February 1965. Therese could not see a movie at that time that wouldn't be released for nine more months.
        • Quotes

          François Chevalier: Do you think Mom's dress is beautiful?

          Pierrot Chevalier: Beautiful like Mom.

        • Connections
          Featured in The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
        • Soundtracks
          Adagio and Fugue in C minor - KV 546
          Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

        User reviews47

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        10/10
        Sheer beauty and subversion
        At first sight, Le Bonheur seems just a conventional film, with everything being too perfect. Each single frame is a beautiful picture in composition and color. We see a happily married couple, with charming and beautiful children, nice family picnics in the country, the sublime music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in two of his most beautiful pieces (Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the Clarinet Quintet). Happiness (Bonheur) and harmony is everywhere.

        But then the husband meets another woman, very different from his wife, falls in love with her, and proposes a thesis: for him, happiness is not a subtractive affair - it all adds up. After being in love with his new lover, he manages to love his wife and children even more. Love, happiness, harmony should never be too much, Agnès Varda seems to say. But is it possible? Or, better: do people make it possible? Shouldn't it be possible?

        That's why this apparently bourgeois film is, in fact, revolutionary. It proposes a new vision on certain matters that is, ultimately, extremely subversive. And it does so in a most contrasting environment.

        That said, it has some of the most gorgeous images in film to look at. The use of colour is amazing. And, exactly for being so beautiful, the conclusion is so shocking.

        In short: one of the most important films in History, one of the most subversive, and certainly one of the most beautiful. We can only say: thank you, Agnès Varda, for making it. Hope people will understand it better, in the future, and grasp the challenge you have cast.
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        • Luke Joplin
        • Mar 2, 2000

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        • Release date
          • May 16, 1997 (United States)
          • France
          • French
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        • Filming locations
          • Avenue de Verdun, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France
        • Production company
          • Parc Film
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        • 1 hour 20 minutes
          • Mono

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