Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Jan 26, 2013
    90
    The resulting film is both beautiful and fascinating, and offers a thrilling travelogue through a spectacular landscape few of us will ever see first-hand.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Alan Scherstuhl
    Jan 22, 2013
    90
    It's fitting that this film of people making do with what they have should itself look somewhat humble, without lyricism, a work not of beauty but of work-which is the thing that makes it beautiful, no matter who directed it.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Steven Boone
    Jan 24, 2013
    88
    Like "Grizzly Man," Herzog's latest documentary, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is mostly built around another filmmaker's priceless footage.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    Jan 23, 2013
    83
    The pleasure of Happy People comes from watching these men go about their work, while they explain that the only way to make it in the taiga is to do and take exactly what's needed, and not get greedy.

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