Happening

Name: Happening
Genre: Drama
Released: May 6, 2022
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Anna Mouglalis, Cyril Metzger, Fabrizio Rongione, Kacey Mottet Klein

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IFC Films | Release Date: May 6, 2022 | R

Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei, Anna Mouglalis, Cyril Metzger, Fabrizio Rongione, Kacey Mottet Klein, Leonor Oberson, Louise Chevillotte, Louise Orry-Diquéro, Luàna Bajrami, Pio Marmaï, Sandrine Bonnaire

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Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival

Summary: France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shameFrance, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.… Expand

Director: Audrey Diwan

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Karen Gordon

May 17, 2022

This is a heavy-duty topic but rather than lecture or make an angry or ideological film, Diwan works here with restrained and even slightly distant tone, focusing on the character of Anne and her determination to control her own life. Read full review

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David Jenkins

Apr 21, 2022

This is not a politically didactic film, nor a lapel-shaking polemic, but a film whose obligation towards fine dramatic authenticity succeeds in convincing that this is the correct way of thinking, and any alternatives are incorrect. Read full review

Martin Tsai

May 5, 2022

The real reason Happening manages to be so persuasive is because it tells such a vivid, intimate and relatable story, whether as a viewer it has happened to you or someone in your life, or your biggest fear is that it will. Read full review

The Film Stage Mitchell Beaupre

Jan 24, 2022

While her aesthetic may boast some grander flourishes than Hittman’s neorealism, there is nevertheless a vérité style to Diwan’s approach that places us right up against Anne for the majority of the film — a tight, boxed aspect ratio leads to the feeling of the walls closing in, her panic setting in just underneath the surface, observed in oft-used closeups of Vartolomei’s expressive face. Read full review

Empire Ella Kemp

Apr 25, 2022

More than a biopic or period-piece, this is a stylish time capsule reaching into the present with unnerving clarity. Abortion care is still so hard — this film makes that fact sink into your bones. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 20, 2022

The drama mimics Anne’s own sense of denial, her own refusal to remember or imagine the catastrophe. What we get instead are clinical inspections functioning as chilling parodies or inversions of that sexual intimacy that has upended her life. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

May 5, 2022

To call it a difficult watch would be an understatement; it often feels, in its stark honesty, like a horror film. Read full review

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KP1994

May 6, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Thi$ 2022 Trailer remind$ mie to 1974 The Gudfather Part Two Movie 4K Rema$ter$ where Michael Corleone'$ Wife commit$ an abortion.… Expand

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chemicalE

May 23, 2022

Not easy on the eyes, but a bold and timely watch. Amazingly made, shot and acted.

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bertobellamy

Aug 8, 2022

Just as '4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days' and "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always,' 'Happening' reminds us of the importance of abortion being legal and safe. In this astounding film about a french girl in the 60s exhausting her options to get an abortion so she can follow a professional life,Just as '4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days' and "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always,' 'Happening' reminds us of the importance of abortion being legal and safe. In this astounding film about a french girl in the 60s exhausting her options to get an abortion so she can follow a professional life, director Audrey Diwan delivers a raw tale of determination and suffering. Also, Anamaria Vartolomei shines as the protagonist, a bright who's left alone in her ordeal. It's beyond me how this young actress makes you care just with her deep blue eyes. A near masterpiece, 'Happenning' should be seen by those guys in the Supreme Court who abolished Roe v. Wade.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Aug 20, 2022

When I read this film had its brutal moments, I actually think it was restrained to a certain extent, not that it had to be a shocking experience or anything like that, but it's inevitably questionable why a dramatization of this topic should show you a reality that many prefer to ignore asWhen I read this film had its brutal moments, I actually think it was restrained to a certain extent, not that it had to be a shocking experience or anything like that, but it's inevitably questionable why a dramatization of this topic should show you a reality that many prefer to ignore as long as the problem doesn't affect them directly. Happening focuses more than anything else on loneliness. The tremendous loneliness of its lead character as her pregnancy begins to grow in her belly and her options begin to run out, because as she learns, the inevitability of time becomes a crucial enemy to the situation she ends up resorting to. This is an excellent film that unfortunately brings back the question of when society will understand that women should not be forced to carry anything inside their bodies against their will for whatever reason you may find.… Expand

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ik1ru

Aug 24, 2022

she just fell pregannt??????? LMAO what a sick joke........................

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