Directed by Agnès Varda • 1965 • France
Starring Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda’s most provocative films, LE BONHEUR examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
In this short interview from 1998, Agnès Varda briefly discusses her ideas behind LE BONHEUR and how it was received by critics at the time of its release.
In this short 2006 piece by Agnès Varda, her daughter, Rosalie Varda-Demy, reunites Claire Drouot and Marie-France Boyer to discuss their roles in the controversial film LE BONHEUR forty-two years earlier.
In 2006 Agnès Varda gathered four intellectuals from various professions and backgrounds—freelance writer-journalist Michèle Manceaux, producer and distributor Gérard Vaugeois, journalist and critic Frédéric Bonnaud, and Fadela Amara, president of the organization Ni putes ni soumises, which seek...
