A Happy Event (2011)
Un heureux événement (2011)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 | 01:45:06 | 7,13 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, French SDH
Genre: Comedy, Drama
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 | 01:45:06 | 7,13 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, French SDH
Genre: Comedy, 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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Rémi Bezançon’s A Happy Event explores one of the most thrilling, painful, joyful, terrifying and altogether life-changing experiences of any woman’s life: the birth of her first child.
Barbara (Louise Bourgoin), a young graduate student, is madly in love with her boyfriend Nicolas (Pio Marmaï) and deep into writing her thesis when she learns she is pregnant. Reeling from the initial shock, Barbara alternates between excitement and trepidation. Amidst a flurry of congratulations, she tries in vain to conform to the image of the happy expectant mother, but is instead exasperated by the tedious yogic breathing classes, and finds herself complaining to her girlfriend about her suffering sex life.
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Once her baby is born, everything becomes alarmingly real. She’s faced with a helpless little being who needs everything from her — love most of all. But despite the support of those around her, including that of her devoted partner, Barbara struggles to connect with her child. Any mother will relate to Barbara’s newborn storm of guilt, exasperation, resolve and sudden eruptions of laughter. Any father will understand Nicolas’ sheer bewilderment.
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A heightened visual style accentuates Barbara’s feeling of estrangement and the changes happening within her own body. Bourgoin’s sensitive performance prompts us to experience Barbara’s doubts and fears, as A Happy Event lays bare the complexity of pregnancy, labour and postpartum recovery. The film’s emotional rollercoaster conveys the highs and lows of first-time motherhood, and shows that nothing can really prepare you for the magnitude of bringing a new life into the world.
A Happy Event (2011)
Charting Barbara’s physical-psychological transformation with a dose of wit and sincerity (“I feel like I’m possessed,” she announces early on), the film’s first section takes us through her tiring months of pregnancy, portrayed here as an, er, bumpy ride marked by several downs (nausea, fatigue, confusion,) and a few ups, including an insatiable sex drive which she explains with the only-in-France comment: “I just want to get gang banged!” These moments culminate in a rather hilarious birthing sequence, proving that from the get-go, both Barbara and the incompetent but good-hearted Nicolas are not quite ready to be parents.
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Relying on an array of stylistic devices – CGI, DV footage, magical snowfalls – reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie, the narrative leaps forward with ease in its early stages, but once the family settles down in their cozy Parisian apartment, it loses traction along with some of its credibility.
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For one thing, Barbara’s surprise with regards to the pitfalls of childbearing and rearing seems odd for a character who has the brains to attempt a doctoral thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractactus Logico-Philosophicus. As for Nicolas, he transforms almost overnight from a fun-loving man-boy to a corporate stiff incapable of holding down the most simple, adult conversation. Since neither he nor Barbara make real efforts to work out their problems, the denouement lacks dramatic pull, while the ending smooths things over in a neat but unsatisfying manner.
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Despite such snags, A Happy Event definitely has its charms, many of them due to an energetic performance by Bourgoin that has her vomiting, moaning, and spouting existential philosophy, all while wearing a prosthetic belly. Given less to work with since the story is told almost entirely from Barbara’s POV, Marmai (Living on Love Alone) manages to offer some comic relief before his character fades away in the latter reels.
A Happy Event (2011)
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- Making of la Musique de Film
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