Happening

Director: Audrey Diwan, Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Sandrine Bonnaire, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Winner Golden Lion, Best Film at Venice Film Festival, Sundance Official Selection, Grand Prize for Best Literary Adaptation, French with English subtitles, R (disturbing material/images, sexual content, graphic nudity)

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. When she becomes pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so. It is an unflinching glimpse of a woman deciding to go against the law in a society that censured women’s desires, and sex in general. “Throughout, Diwan’s gaze remains clear, direct, fearless. She shows you a part of life that the movies rarely do.” —Manohla Dargis, New York Times