English title: Happiness
François and Thérèse are married and have two lovely children. They are a happy young couple. He works as a carpenter under his uncle. When François meets Émilie at the post office where she works, they feel a mutual attraction and start having an affair.
This film feels quite absurd. Some of it is a very realistic depiction of a working class ambiance. In other parts, characters behave is a way which is very implausible and incompatible with the social surroundings so meticulously built up for them. The film's title makes it clear that it wants to discuss an abstract concept. For that, it would have been more suited to have this story set in an intellectual milieu. It would have been a different movie, to be sure, and probably a more successful one.
Rating: 34
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