Happy Birthday | Fête de famille

Masters

  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Cédric Kahn
  • France 2019
  • 101 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

“Today is my birthday and I would only like to talk about happy things.”

The family gathers one summer day in a lovely, aging country villa to celebrate Andrea’s 70th birthday. Andrea doesn’t know it yet but the ‘surprise’ arrival of her eldest daughter, Claire, who has been gone for the past three years and is determined to take back what is due to her, will upset the program and trigger a family storm.

Filmography: The Prayer (2018), Wild Life (2014), A Better Life (2011), Regrets (2009), L'avion (2005), Red Lights (2004), Roberto Succo (2001), L'ennui (1998).


  • Director Cédric Kahn
  • Production Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Aude Cathelin
  • Script Cédric Kahn
  • Cinematography Yves Cape
  • Editing Yann Dedet
  • Actors Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Bercot, Vincent Macaigne, Cédric Kahn
  • Source Elle Driver, Paris