Le bonheur / Title from optional English subtitles: Happiness - Director-approved special ed. , France - [United States] : Criterion Collection, ©2007. - 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - Criterion collection ; 420 . - Criterion collection ; 420. .

Originally produced as motion picture in 1964. Released in boxed set titled: 4 by Agnès Varda. Special features: "Agnès on Le bonheur"; "The two women of Le bonheur" (2006), a short film; "Thoughts on Le bonheur" (2006), a discussion; "What is happiness?"; "Jean-Claude Drouot returns" (2006) featurette; segment from the 1964 television program "Démons et merveilles du cinéma", featuring footage of Varda shooting Le bonheur; "Du côté de la côte" (1958), a short film; Theatrical trailer; Production notes.

Bonheur / Du côté de la côte / directed by Agnes Varda directed by Agnes Varda (1964, 80 min.) -- (1958, 25 min.).

Photography, Claude Beausoleil, Jean-Louis Malige, Yves Agostini, Jean Rabier, Claude Zidi, Paul Bonis ; production design, Hubert Monloup, Charles Merangel, Joseph Gerhard ; editing, Janine Verneau, Danielle Grimberg, Maria Lourdes Osorio ; music, W.A. Mozart, Jean-Michel Defaye ; sound, Louis Hochet, Antoine Bonfanti, Robert Cambourakis. Photography, Claude Beausoleil, Jean-Louis Malige, Yves Agostini, Jean Rabier, Claude Zidi, Paul Bonis ; production design, Hubert Monloup, Charles Merangel, Joseph Gerhard ; editing, Janine Verneau, Danielle Grimberg, Maria Lourdes Osorio ; music, W.A. Mozart, Jean-Michel Defaye ; sound, Louis Hochet, Antoine Bonfanti, Robert Cambourakis.

Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Sandrine Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marcelle Favre-Bertin, Manon Lanclos, Sylvia Saurel, Marc Eyraud, Christian Riehl, Paul Vecchiali.

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.


DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.


In French with optional English subtitles.

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Man-woman relationships--France--Drama.
Adultery--Drama.
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Man-woman relationship--France--Drama.
Adultery--Drama.


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