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  • 2011
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she "isn't particularly attractive" anymore. Whatever. That's life. But when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to ...

Directed By: Anne Sewitsky

Written By: Mette M. Bølstad, Ragnhild Tronvoll, Anne Sewitsky

  • 2011
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Happy, Happy

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she "isn't particularly attractive" anymore. Whatever. That's life. But when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to ...

Directed By: Anne Sewitsky

Written By: Mette M. Bølstad, Ragnhild Tronvoll, Anne Sewitsky

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
56% Positive
10 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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39% Mixed
7 Reviews
6% Negative
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83
Sep 17, 2011
Kittelsen is a funny, expansive actress, and director Anne Sewitsky manages the sad-comic tonal shifts with emotional accuracy.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 12, 2011
Winner of Sundance's grand jury prize for world cinema, Happy, Happy is a very strange film. Yet I was happy to be watching. It is short and intense enough that it always seems on track, even if the train goes nowhere.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 13, 2011
The questionable black-historical shorthand detracts from what is otherwise a well-performed and fitfully amusing film.
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63
Oct 7, 2011
Happy, Happy has the makings of a Norwegian "Ice Storm," but it goes out with a whimper.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 13, 2011
Director Anne Sewitsky aims for quirky humanism along the lines of Finland's Aki Kaurismaki; she's helped along considerably by Kittelsen's sunny performance, though the film crosses over into Scandinavian kitsch with a series of country-swing interludes sung a capella by a male quartet.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 15, 2011
Sets out to puncture the clichéd image of Scandinavians as rosy-cheeked choristers bonded in communal togetherness. But its subversive intentions are ultimately undercut by its lack of nerve, along with a lurking sentimentality.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 23, 2011
First-time director Anne Sewitsky may intend Happy, Happy as a Chekhovian chamber piece or romantic bagatelle, but her smugness about racism - and her glib symbolic resolution of the conflicts she raises - suggests an ambition that far outstrips her ability, at least for now.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Maipo Film
Release Date Sep 16, 2011
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline any reason not to be?
Website http://www.magpictures.com/happyhappy/
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Awards

Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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