François, a young carpenter, lives happily with his wife and their children. His life is divided between the carpenter’s shop, picnics in the country and peaceful evenings at home. One day, he meets a postal clerk called Emilie.
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. Varda lets her camera do the telling. It records ironies and exposes cliché, but it leaves moral accounting to the audience.
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