Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 145: Sun Jun 3

Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 4.10pm


This screening, which is also being shown on June 6th and 21st (details here), is part of the Agnes Varda season at BFI Southbank. Full details of the season can be found here.

Chicago Reader review:
A beautiful and disturbing 1965 feature by Agnes Varda about family happiness, full of lingering and creepy ambiguities. A happily married carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a beautiful wife (Claire Drouot) and two small children (Sandrine and Oliver Drouot) falls in love with a beautiful postal clerk (Marie-France Boyer), who becomes his mistress. After the wife dies for mysterious reasons (whether by accident or suicide isn't clear), his idyllic family life continues with the postal clerk. Provocative and lovely to look at, this is one of Varda's best and most interesting features (along with Cleo From 5 to 7 and Vagabond).
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

35mm? Not according to BFI!

Capital Celluloid said...

Sorry - my bad. Must have misread that.