Le Bonheur by Agnès Varda
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Taking happiness (bonheur in French) as its key subject, Agnès Varda’s human drama follows the story of François, a carpenter devoted to his wife, Thérèse, and their two young children. Soon, he falls for a woman named Émilie, until his wife forces him to confront his personal decisions and desires. Shot in a highly saturated Impressionist style, the film serves as an allegorical story of fraught romance, exploring the tangled relationship between happiness and selfishness. 1965, France, DCP, in French with English subtitles, 80 min.
This film is part of Cinema Revived: Timeless Selections from the Vault, an ongoing presentation of notable feature-length films from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.
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Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer, and visual artist. Often called the “godmother of the French New Wave” for her early works, such as La Pointe Courte (1955) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), she broke narrative traditions and influenced future directors. Varda was credited with inspiring many of the hallmarks of the movement: nonlinear narrative, an emphasis on mood over story line, and often-jarring editing. She also made numerous documentaries, several commissioned by the French tourism office. “I am the queen of the margins,” Varda told the New York Times in 2009, remarking on her lack of name recognition from a commercial standpoint. “But the films are loved. The films are remembered. And this is my aim—to be loved as a filmmaker because I want to share emotions, to share the pleasure of being a filmmaker.”
Content note: This film contains nudity, sexual content, and death.
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