Please note: This was screened in March 2022
Coinciding with the midway point during the Glasgow Film Festival 2022, we’re presenting Audrey Diwan’s outstanding Venice Golden Lion winner that could not be more timely.
Based on Anne Ernaux’s memoir of the same name, Happening (L'événementin French) stars Anamaria Vartolomei as Anne, a French literature student at Angouleme University in the early 1960s.
When Anne falls pregnant, her plans and hopes for the future are thrown into disarray. Abortion is illegal in France at the time, and Anne considers pregnancy “that illness that turns French women into housewives”. Family and close friends are of little help and as the weeks pass Anne is faced with the awful prospect of having to take drastic action of her own.
This tense, poignant and dramatic thriller drama is a powerful tale of the difficult experiences that women endure.