Happening

"Happening is filmed and performed in such a delicate, skin-soft register, meanwhile, that the escalating terror of Anne’s situation is all the more pronounced.
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Variety
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Audrey Diwan
  • USA 2021
  • 100 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so…

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Festival Happening is adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel. The film offers a powerful and gripping drama set in a society that condemned female desire and sexual liberty.

Filmography: Losing It (2019).


  • Director Audrey Diwan
  • Production Edouard Weil
  • Script Audrey Diwan, Marcia Romano
  • Cinematography Laurent Tangy
  • Editing Géraldine Mangenot
  • Music Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
  • Festivals Venice (Golden Lion, Fipresci Award)
  • Actors Anamaria Vartolomei, Luana Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquero, Kacey Mottet Klein
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.