Happening

L'événement, feature film, France, 2021

DIRECTED BY: Audrey Diwan

Happening

CAST:
Anamaria Vartolomei,
Luana Bajrami,
Louise Orry-Diquero,
Kacey Mottet Klein,
Louise Chevillotte,
Pio Marmaï,
Sandrine Bonnaire

SCRIPT:
Audrey Diwan,
Marcia Romano

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Laurent Tangy

EDITING:
Géraldine Mangenot

Synopsis:

The winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film and this year’s Venice FIPRESCI Award, Happening is a suspenseful and potent adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by French writer Annie Ernaux, in which she dissects her experience of abortion. The film follows Anne, a young student who decides to have an abortion in order to finish her studies and escape her constrained existence in a working-class family. But it is 1963, abortion is illegal in France and the clock is ticking – Anne’s exams are approaching and her belly is growing. The search for an illegal abortion is proving more difficult than expected.

Subtitles: EN, HR

color, 100'

Trailer