A Happy Event

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A Happy Event

6.5 | 1h47m | en | Drama

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

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Released: October. 10,2011 | Released Producted By: Gaumont , France 2 Cinéma Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Drama , Comedy

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Cast

Louise Bourgoin , Pio Marmaï , Josiane Balasko , Thierry Frémont , Gabrielle Lazure , Firmine Richard

Director

Maamar Ech-Cheikh

Producted By

Gaumont

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Louise Bourgoin

as Barbara

I Swear La pire mère au monde Le monde magique de Jérôme Commandeur The Medium Latin for All Monsieur Spade 40 Anti-Squat The Mountain Loving Memories

Pio Marmaï

as Nicolas

Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight The Ties That Bind Us No One Will Know Néro the Assassin 50th César Awards Ceremony Le monde magique de Jérôme Commandeur Le Monde magique de Jérôme Commandeur Daaaaaalí! In the Sub for Love Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Josiane Balasko

as Claire

Offshoring Josiane Balasko, un grand cri d'amour ! Party of Fools When Fall Is Coming Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema Des mains en or Il était une fois... « Grâce à Dieu » Un chalet à Gstaad Price of Parenting Knock, Knock, It's Mom!

Thierry Frémont

as Tony

Le Repas des fauves Nautilus Noir comme neige Luther La Mort est dans le pré Personae All the Gods in the Sky Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away Dark Stories to Survive the Night Who killed the Neanderthal?

Gabrielle Lazure

as Édith

Coup de tampon Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard Presumed Guilty Woman in Car Une manière de vivre Rabid Dogs Passer l'hiver Arbitrage Bay of Algiers Down the Shore

Firmine Richard

as La sage-femme

Joseph Enquête en famille Start Me Up Oldies But Goodies Monsieur Parizot Wish Polar Park Le Coffre Polar Park La Plus belle pour aller danser

Maamar Ech-Cheikh

Production Design

Florin Dima

Set Decoration

Catherine Werner Schmit

Set Decoration

Antoine Monod

Director of Photography

Marie-Laure Lasson

Costume Design

Christian Schnezler

Costume Design

Rémi Bezançon

Director

Sophie Reine

Editor

Éliette Abécassis

Novel

Vanessa Portal

Screenplay

Rémi Bezançon

Screenplay

A Happy Event Audience Reviews

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

ciaopeche The film's honesty can at times be hilarious, sensual, and painful. As you watch the lively young couple from act 1 morph into something unrecognizable, you can't help but feel despair. Only once the couple has reached rock-bottom can they begin to re-emerge, learning how to become themselves again. As Nico attempts to become the breadwinner, he slowly becomes cold and callous, unsympathetic to Barb and nothing like his former self. Barb becomes isolated, barely talking to her friends and even Nico, making Lea her life. Louise Bourgoin does a wonderful job of expressing the anguish her character feels, through blank stares and tears. I love the way this film explores postpartum depression in a real way, and how as the characters gradually have their love drained out of them, so does the color and light of the film, leaving only a blue-gray tone. Only when Barb begins to heal with the help of her mother, and Nico's gradual understanding of Barb's pain as he attempts to fulfill Barb's former role does warmth enter the screen again, signaling a new beginning for both her and Nico. A simple story in the sense it is a common occurrence in life, but extremely well executed.

SnoopyStyle Barbara Dray (Louise Bourgoin) is a grad student writing her PHD thesis on her way to being a professor assistant. She encounters video store clerk Nicolas Malle (Pio Marmaï) and they start flirting with movie titles. She gets pregnant. They have a girl naming her Lea, not Martha. Barb's irreverent mom dismisses the perfect mother idea. Barb struggles with raising Lea as it comes to a head.This has a reality and some funny moments. Bourgoin is a tall gorgeous model with some comedic chops. The story has a little bit of sadness and plenty of the struggles of child-raising. The movie opens with a very pregnant Barb unable to get comfortable. While it's a funny bit, it does indicate the moment when the movie should start to finish, and it's not. After she gives birth, the movie keeps going. It feels run-on. It might be better to foreshadow a moment later on in the movie. Overall, it has compelling everywoman story done with sincerity, comedy, and poetry.

nikolova-assya I guess today the questions about when and how to have kids and especially how to stay in a couple afterwards are becoming more and more difficult to answer. Actually in every movie I see on the topic, they try to persuade me that the only way to do it right is your way, but this usually doesn't'go without about a bit of socio-cultural propaganda about mothers, father and families. And this is the what I like about this movie - it doesn't lead you to preset conclusions, in fact it dos quite the opposite. Every time during the movie, when I thought I knew where this was going, it actually turned the other way around. But never the less when you look to the whole string of events, everything fits, everything is believable and actually can picture yourself or someone you know closely in such a situation. I actually quite remembered saying and thinking the same things as Barbara though the kid-having moment hasn't come to me yet. But apart being so honest and sincerely questioning our stands on the points of having kids, this movie has other great quality and this is the chemistry between the Bab and Nico. It's just that you feel their connection, you feel what is like to "love someone so much that the bet thing to do out of this love is to have a child". And this is great, because this is the answer of all the questions - love and slefgiving. You loose your way when you forget that. So in conclusion - you want to see this movie because it is gentle, it is sincere and will put you in the mood for love.

bdugan-380-186048 Why has this movie not been made already? Its such a believable, everyday story, and it shows the way life really is. Two people meet, they have a sweet courting period, they're perfect together, they have a baby. And then its like two new people that have to start over with a new set of tough constraints & pressures. But they muddle along and work together, on the baby and on their own lives at the same time.I thought this was an extremely well conveyed telling of a story that we all know, but that can't be told too often. Every instance of it is unique, but with universal themes.I enjoyed the drama-less drama of this movie: life itself in its mundane details is so dramatic!