Happiness is No Joke
Synopsis
Michel, forty-five, has just lost his wife. He is alone in the corner of a bar, on Christmas Eve. During the night, his encounters with a variety of drifters will bring him one pleasant surprise: Nadine. He will tell her his secret. Nadine will tell him hers. They'll flee this night full of coincidences together.
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Actors (12)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Play It Again (Les Productions Desmichelle)
- Co-productions : Ingrid Productions, TSF Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Play It Again (Les Productions Desmichelle)
- French distribution : Play It Again (Les Productions Desmichelle)
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Hugues Desmichelle
- Adaptation : Guillaume Nicloux
- Screenwriter : Guillaume Nicloux
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Music Composer : Marcel Kanche
- Assistant Director : Lionel Steketee
- Editor : Brigitte Benard
- Sound Recordist : Erik Ménard
- Press Attaché (film) : Jérme Lascombe
- Production Designer : Grégoire Callens
- Sound Mixer : Christian Fontaine
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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"This film is a dream, unless it's a nightmare. A fix of a film starting with nausea and an overdose of melancholy. (...) "After a series of absurd situations and fanciful atmospheres," to use Guillaume Nicloux's quaint expression, (...) Nadine and Michelle live out the traditional disheartening Christmas Eve as best they can. As for Nativity, they leave a trail of passionate corpses of passion, lousy men and humiliated women in their wake. But they don't kill anyone. (...) Happiness is No Joke is a strange film. Just like its booby-trapped and reversible title: misfortune is nothing to cry about."
(Olivier Séguret - Libération)
