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  • 2017
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 2017
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h
My Happy Family

Summary On the evening of her 52nd birthday, Georgian literature teacher Manana unexpectedly announces to her family that she is leaving. She has been married for 30 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two children and her son-in-law.The members of her family represent three generations and are completel...

Directed By: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß

Written By: Nana Ekvtimishvili

  • 2017
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 2017
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h

My Happy Family

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
86
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary On the evening of her 52nd birthday, Georgian literature teacher Manana unexpectedly announces to her family that she is leaving. She has been married for 30 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two children and her son-in-law.The members of her family represent three generations and are completel...

Directed By: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß

Written By: Nana Ekvtimishvili

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
86
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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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100
Dec 7, 2017
Many of the year’s best films feature female protagonists who are resolved to live on their own terms, and My Happy Family ranks right alongside them.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
100
Jan 28, 2017
We’re left with a prickly kind of harmony that blends mundanity with profundity. There’s no more perfect a note for a film as intelligent, compassionate, and complex as “My Happy Family” to end on than that.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
7.4
69% Positive
11 Ratings
25% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
7.4
69% Positive
11 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
6% Negative
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10
johangeist
Oct 23, 2021
This movie captures the cultural and transcultural taboo of the loneliness versus sadness. The freedom that flood the movie is absolutely a question for all ov us
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8
zapV
Jan 8, 2018
Beautiful picture, focused on a conflict between an individual and suffocating national family traditions.
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91
Jan 28, 2017
It’s at once a celebration of individuality and its potential to unnerve those who resist it.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2017
A low-key yet complex family drama, My Happy Family is a quietly devastating portrait of what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 28, 2017
Slow-paced but always absorbing, the film features a magnetic central performance by Ia Shugliashvili as one of the strongest, most quietly heroic introverts we’ve seen on screen in a while.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 29, 2017
It casually lays out the domestic space where the story’s events takes place with acutely detailed cultural specificity.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 28, 2017
Providing certain vivid detail but rather lacking in vitality, Ekvtimishvili’s screenplay is stronger on sociology than drama.
By Alissa Simon FULL REVIEW
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DogeGamer2015
Jun 20, 2021
Es una película extranjera que se puede ver en Netflix; está muy bien realizada y es realista; las actuaciones son excelentes, la trama es buena y la cinematografía está decente; es recomendable y vale totalmente la pena.
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Simms
Oct 21, 2018
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company Arizona Films, Augenschein Filmproduktion, Georgian National Film Centre, Polare Film
Release Date Dec 1, 2017
Duration 2 h
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Website http://augenschein-filmproduktion.de/en/films/detail/my-happy-family.html
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Awards

Festival del Cinema Europeo
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Odesa International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Wiesbaden goEast
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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