A Happy Event

Sep 27, 2011

1h 47m

★ 6.0

Overview

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Gaumont

France 2 Cinéma

SCOPE Pictures

RTBF

Mandarin Cinéma

A Happy Event Trailers

Cast

Barbara

Louise Bourgoin

Nicolas

Pio Marmaï

Claire

Josiane Balasko

Tony

Thierry Frémont

Édith

Gabrielle Lazure

La sage-femme

Firmine Richard

Daphné

Anaïs Croze

Katia - la soeur de Barbara

Daphné Bürki

Le docteur Camille Rose

Lannick Gautry

La gynécologue

Nicole Valberg

Jean-François Truffard - le prof de philo

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

La vendeuse du sex-shop

Ophélie Koering

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.

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