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     • As five weeks turn into seven and Anne’s belly swells, “Happening” becomes an existential thriller. Her situation becomes worrying, then excruciating.
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     ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama

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   Is 'happening' an existential thriller?

   • As five weeks turn into seven and Anne’s belly swells, “Happening” becomes an existential thriller. Her situation becomes worrying, then excruciating. There’s nowhere for Anne to go for help and no one to turn to, or so it seems to her, creating a sense of mounting isolation that Diwan’s intimate filmmaking only underscores.

   ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama

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   Is 'Happening' a human thriller?

   • As the weeks pass by in "Happening", marked on screen in a subtly pressing countdown to a point of no return, the film takes on the shape of a human thriller for Anne as her options shut down one by one. Once her belly begins to show, her life as she's ambitiously constructed it is over.

   'Happening' Review: A Powerful, Timely French Abortion Drama - Variety

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   Is 'Happening' a good film?

   • The film 'Happening' is characterized by cool spring light and blushing pastel tones, making for a visually appealing presentation. 'Happening' is a French abortion drama set in 1963 that feels all too current. (Reviewed at Venice Film Festival, Competition, Sept. 5, 2021)

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   Is happening based on a true story?

   • Happening is based on a true story, a book by Annie Ernaux with the same name, which recounts the weeks leading up to her illegal abortion in 1963. Although these events took place half a century ago, the story has now taken on a frightening new sense of urgency.

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   Is happening a war movie?

   • Happening often has the air of a war movie, but if that makes the universe Diwan has created sound morally black and white, it isn’t. Anne can’t confide in her bar-owning mother Gabrielle (a magnificent Sandrine Bonnaire), presumably because her mother views abortion as a crime. Yet Gabrielle is never presented as weak or narrow-minded.

   Happening movie review: Sublime, in the truest sense of the word

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   In which year is 'Happening' set?

   • The film 'Happening' is set in 1963. Our protagonist, Anne, is 23 years old and unwillingly pregnant; determined to do something about it, she immediately finds every door in her world closed to her.

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3. www.gq.com › story › happening-audrey-diwan-interview'Happening' Director Audrey Diwan On the Unfortunate ... - GQ

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   May 27, 2022 · In Happening, a haunting, visceral drama directed by Audrey Diwan, a 23-year-old student, Anne, discovers she is pregnant. It’s the early 1960s, when abortion and contraception were both...

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4. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › movies'Happening' review: Must-see French abortion drama - Los ...

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   May 5, 2022 · Audrey Diwan's drama, winner of the top prize at last year's Venice International Film Festival, mounts a powerful defense of abortion rights.

5. variety.com › 2021 › film'Happening' Review: A Powerful, Timely French Abortion Drama

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   Sep 6, 2021 · Without didactic rhetoric or politicking, “Happening” powerfully essays the risks of refusing women control over their bodies.

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   Happening (French: L'Événement) is a 2021 French drama thriller film directed by Audrey Diwan. The film's adapted screenplay was written by Diwan and Marcia Romano from the memoir Happening by Annie Ernaux published in 2000.

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   Apr 22, 2022 · Review at a glance. Audrey Diwan’s French-language abortion drama has already been recognised as a major piece of film-making (it won the top prize at Venice; more recently, Diwan was...

8. www.npr.org › 2022/05/06 › 1097079488'Happening' movie review: An abortion drama that speaks to ...

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   May 6, 2022 · A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963...