Le Bonheur
Agnès Varda
A carpenter loves his seamstress wife, his children and nature. He meets someone else, a postwoman, who adds extra happiness to his happiness. Still very much in love with his wife, he doesn't want to deprive himself, hide, or lie. At a picnic outside Paris, drama mixes with delights…
With : Jean-Claude Drouot, François Chevalier, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Sandrine Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marcelle Faure-Bertin, Manon Lanclos,Sylvia Saurel, Marc Eyraud, Christian Riehl, Paul Vecchiali
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Claude Beausoleil, Jean Rabier
Sound : Louis Hochet
Editing : Janine Verneau
Music : Jean-Michel Defaye
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Claude Beausoleil, Jean Rabier
Sound : Louis Hochet
Editing : Janine Verneau
Music : Jean-Michel Defaye
Production : Parc Film
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
For Agnès Varda, the idea of “happiness” is linked to nature. The first image which came into her mind for her film was that of a pastoral, with, at its heart, a family picnicking in the countryside. The family in question is played by a real family, the family of actor Jean-Claude Drouot. Famous throughout France for his role as Thierry la Fronde on television, he performs here alongside his wife, Claire, and their two children. When it was released, the film caused a genuine scandal for the way in which its theme, adultery, was treated without any moral judgement. Le Bonheur (Happiness) was even banned for the under-18s.