September 30 // Le Bonheur // Bjorn

TMN is back!! Tonight I am showing "Le Bonheur" (not "Le Boner" okay guys? ), a French New Wave film by Agnes Varda. Varda was one of the only female directors associated with the French New Wave, and her films offer a different take on male-female relationships than most of the other directors of the time.

"Le Bonheur" ( French for "Happiness", not for "Boner", remember?) is described by Criterion thusly:

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot), young husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. 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.

So join me at House Garry at 7:30 for pizza, Dawson's and Boners-- I mean Bonheur!