A Happy Event - French Film Festival  CTC

Rating CTC

Release DateFriday, 30 March 2012

Length 1hrs 47min

Main Cast Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Frémont, Firmine Richard

Movie DirectorRémi Bezançon

DistributorFrench Film Festival

In his third feature film, much-loved director Rémi Bezançon (The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, Love is in the Air) takes an intimate look at a woman’s most joyful, painful, terrifying and life-changing experience: first-time motherhood.

Louise Bourgoin plays Barbara, a graduate student immersed in writing her thesis. She is madly in love with her boyfriend Nicolas (Pio Marmaï) and the carefree couple soon learns that she is pregnant. Faced with the very real prospect of bringing a new life into the world, it’s an emotional rollercoaster for Barbara who swings between sheer excitement, fearful apprehension and craving sex!

After the birth of the baby, Barbara struggles to connect with her child and to come to terms with her new life as a mother. Her emotions yoyo from moments of guilt to laughter and back again, much to the bewilderment of the devoted Nicolas.

This stylish, contemporary drama with a comedic tone takes a sensitive, taboo-breaking look at the realities of what to expect when you’re expecting.

“The director takes the subject heads on and skilfully manages the very talented Pio Marmaï and Louise Bourgoin” - Elle