Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers. He still loves his wife and wants to share his new greater happiness with her.... (Full plot summary below)
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Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers. He still loves his wife and wants to share his new greater happiness with her.
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| New YorkerRichard BrodyVarda fills her frames with riots of nature and color, like Bonnard paintings come to life, and with an erotic intimacy to match, choreographing physical passion with unabashed but formally controlled delight. |
| User ReviewKirana YAgnes varda is new wave woman extraordinaire. The same pioneering sensibility with a feminine touch. Just as ruthless and honest as the others but much more aesthetic. This film makes you think about marriage and fidelity in French ways. I was a bit dumbfounded and deeply moved. You *have* to see this. Would be a wonderful companion to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. |
| User ReviewJose GA brilliant film. Varda has the ability to mask turmoil with a Technicolor landscape. The most ethereal aspect of the film was the score. Mozart's symphony brought about an elegant dance of beauty and tragedy. You expect there to be certain conventions upheld (namely that the disclosure of an affair to one's spouse would end a marriage), but like the title implies, there is a certain level of happiness. We may not completely relate to a husband having an affair, but we can relate to the individual pursuit of happiness. |
| User ReviewPrivate UBrilliant and bold use of colour, the film feels like Varda has staged everything that passes the screen. |
| User ReviewCarly RVery beautifully shot film...very strange undertone. |
| User ReviewHsiang Ju HPerfection is only momentary... Wonderful... " Il n'y a pas de honte a preferer le bonheur" ---- Albert Camus |
| User ReviewKirk JA man in a happy marriage with two kids begins an affair, sincerely feeling he has enough love for both women and that neither one will be loved less. To start with, it's absolutely beautiful to look at. Varda always seems to know exactly what to do with the image, where to put the camera, which direction to move, when to cut, what color to fade to; everything is absolutely perfect. Moreover, the film is completely fascinating first because Varda deals with her subject with a rare honesty and forgiveness. Not a single character is unlikeable. Even if you see error in the husband's thinking, it is clear he believes with all of his heart that he truly can love both of these women at once and you sympathize with his sincerity. The wife is easy to care for, a good mother and very devoted, and the mistress is not someone you feel compelled to hate, either. She's not out to break up this marriage and she seems to really need this love. And what makes the film endlessly interesting is in how ambiguous Varda is about her own feelings. She never leads you to pick a side, never encourages you to see one specific viewpoint or leave the film feeling a particular way about what happened. While the music (Mozart is used throughout most of the film) in the last 15 minutes would seem to suggest anger at the way things have turned out, you can also look at the early stages of the film and see the image of the idyllic family with pastoral music as too perfect a presentation, one that is not entirely believable. Varda even hints at this herself; after we've watched about five minutes of this family picnicking in the woods, she cuts almost immediately to nearly the same image in a TV advertisement, suggesting that a marriage that happy only exists in commercials to begin with. Altogether an amazing experience, probably one of the greatest films ever made about love relationships. |
| User ReviewMichael Lanother absolutely breathtaking varda film! i cant believe i just started watching her films seriously. the film really does define happiness in its most synsogynistic sense. im not sure if varda intended the film to be so anti-feminist but it is and it works so well. the idyllic feel and impended sense of doom is completely unrequited and totally well done. |
| User ReviewJ'onn Jtres troublant. firm moraliste ou supremement sarcastique, ou amoral? |
| User ReviewMaarrk HA rather surprising miniature from Agnes Varda on the ability to love more than one person simultaneously, all set to Mozart and backed by summer hues turned to autumn by the light-handed yet unshakable finale. |
