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Only a woman could dare to make this film.
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François 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.Read moreLess
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François 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.
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Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François 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.
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Jean-Claude DrouotFrançois Chevalier
Marie-France BoyerÉmilie Savignard
Sylvia SaurelYvette Mercier
Marc EyraudJoseph Chevalier
Paul VecchialiPaul
Yvonne DanyWedding Guest (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Writer
- Agnès Varda
- Producer
- Mag Bodard
- Original Music Composer
- Jean-Michel Defaye
- Director of Photography
- Claude Beausoleil
- Director of Photography
- Jean Rabier
- Editor
- Janine Verneau