we need to kill whoever wanted to make a call to tel aviv.
agnes varda's le boncheur is something entirely unique, especially in terms of the things that happen and the films perspective of them.
a film with a color coat. cheerfull music, colorfull outfits and even the addition of children is suppose to throw you off later when francios ultimately cheats on his wife and events spiral out of control but thats the things, everything appears to be normal but when his wife dies, maybe even supposedly killed herself....the happiness continue's.the film qeustions what true happiness is and to what end we meet our selfish side. you can never truly make everyone happy but the one who twists and silently destroys someones life gets to live his life further.
he ends up with the person who he cheated on his wife with and she's happy, its a film that also raises the qeustion as to how morally wrong cheating is to a degree but its also a tale of doomed happiness that instructs us to consider what makes us happy and who makes us happy and examine that.its something i've personally struggled with inside my own family, not the cheating but more so the incapability to do the right thing that could make everyone happy and instead choose to use happiness as a tool for ones despaire, unknowingly or not.

Happiness
Only a woman could dare to make this film.
Rating
5.0 (1)
Release Date
2/10/1965Runtime
80 minsOverview
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
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A quietly devastating portrait of a man's infidelity and the unraveling it causes, observed with clinical precision and emotional restraint. The film cuts close to bone because it refuses to condemn or sentimentalize its protagonist's choices.
Mood
MelancholicBittersweetUnsettling
Themes
LoveBetrayalFamily
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticPainterly
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Sexual content

Jean-Claude Drouot
François Chevalier
Claire Drouot
Thérèse Chevalier
Olivier Drouot
Pierrot Chevalier
Sandrine Drouot
Gisou Chevalier

Marie-France Boyer
Émilie Savignard
Marcelle Faure-Bertin
Bertin
Manon Lanclos
Mrs. Mesquier

Sylvia Saurel
Yvette Mercier

Marc Eyraud
Joseph Chevalier
Christian Riehl

Paul Vecchiali
Paul

Yvonne Dany
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
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