(NR) France – 1 hr 20 min
1965 · d. Agnès Varda – with subtitles
Starring Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
Why should an affair trouble Francois’s blissful marriage and family life? “Happiness works by addition,” he declares. Does it? Bursting with brilliant colors, playful imagery, and a joyful score, this subversive satire may be Varda’s most audacious work, described by the director as “a beautiful summer peach with a worm inside.”
Le Bonheur will be preceded by the short “The So-Called Caryatids” (13 min). Film critic Carrie Rickey will join us at the screening to discuss her new book, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, for sale on site from Main Point Books.
Today, September 19
7.00
