Jean-Claude Drouot

Claire Drouot

Olivier Drouot

Sandrine Drouot

Marie-France Boyer

Marcelle Faure-Bertin

Manon Lanclos

Sylvia Saurel

Marc Eyraud

Christian Riehl

Paul Vecchiali

Yvonne Dany

Agnès Varda

Mag Bodard

Jean Rabier

Janine Verneau

Claude Beausoleil

Jean-Paul Savignac

Philippe Dussart

Michel Choquet

Joseph Gerhard

Claude François

Serge Groffe

Jean-Michel Defaye

Hubert Monloup

Charles Merangel

Claude Zidi

Pascal Bazart

Martha Lourdes Osorio

Annie Maurel

Jeanne Marie Olivier

Louis Hochet

Robert Cambourakis

Laurence Clairval

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bernard Largemains

Jean-Louis Malige

Marcel Dindault

Agnès Soulet

Francine Corteggiani

Antoine Bonfanti

Helga Romanoff

Daniele Grimberg

Alex Pront

Yves Agostini

Paul Bonis

Catherine Savignac

Drama

Romance

Le Bonheur

Parc Film

France

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Ha! Talk about having your cake and eating it! "François" (Jean-Claude Drouot) is happily married to "Thérèse" (Claire Drouot) and living in a small apartment with their two children "Pierrot" and "Gisou". They are a loving couple and seem perfectly content with life. Then "François" is despatched to do some work away from home and when calling his boss from the post office encounters "Émilie" (Marie-France Boyer) with whom he swaps a smile. That's just the beginning as the two chat a little, flirt a little and then... Now he isn't a bad man in any malevolent sense, he genuinely loves his wife and makes it clear to his new friend that she will always take priority - a situation that "Émilie" appears to be quite willing to accept - albeit reservedly. Thing is, on a family picnic he decides that it's only fair that his wife know the truth. On the face of it, at least that's an half way honest thing to do but, well you'll have to watch and see. there's something unnervingly inconclusive about this film. Nobody is inherently bad or evil or even deliberately thoughtless, yet he is possibly one of the most selfish people I've ever seen (benignly) portrayed in cinema. He genuinely thinks his cherry-picking, almost like a job-share, arrangement will satisfy these women. That because they are enough (for now, presumably) for him that they will be content to share him! It's tightly cast with a sufficient minimum of dialogue to augment a story that is surprisingly thought-provoking to watch. Maybe a little over-scored but well worth eighty minutes before a denouement that might make you want to look your own partner in the eye! Or maybe into a mirror...?

Français

Happiness

Le Bonheur (1965) Trailer