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Le Bonheur
Suns Cinema
Washington, DC
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Le Bonheur
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.

"The first thing about Le Bonheur is its riot of color a painterly mix that is more reminiscent of the cosmic intimacy of Bonnards paintings than of the Impressionist works that Varda references throughout the film. And for Varda, the charms of Impressionism are raw material that she subjects to analysis and criticismits a film in which emotional life and sensual delight are seen through the prism of sociology, psychology, and philosophical reflection." - Richard Brody, New Yorker

"More than Le bonheurs feminist politics and the fact that they were slightly ahead of their time, it is on the level of form that the film is so unsettling and calls up so many contradictory interpretations. One need only look at the opening and closing scenes to understand the complexity of Vardas strategy." - Amy Taubin, Criterion

"The film is essentially a deftly sustained cognitive dissonance experiment. The synthetic warmth of the images, counter-posed against the coldness of the psychological approach. Each draws a special charge from the other. There has never been a verfremdungseffekt quite like this one. Brecht must have triple-axelled in his grave." - Senses of Cinema

"The power of Vardas film is that it remains startling even in our savvy era, leaving us as uncertain and suspicious of its intentions as its first audiences must have been Le Bonheur may be numbered among the many precursors to radical works such as Blue Velvet and Fat Girl, but Vardas film is moving in ways that a Lynch or Breillat could never be." - The House Next Door

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Suns Cinema (View)
3107 Mount Pleasant Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
United States

Categories

Film > Movies

Minimum Age: 21

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Owner: Suns Cinema
On BPT Since: May 02, 2016
 
Suns Cinema
www.sunscinema.com


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