RogerEbert.com
In a part that asks a lot of her, Vartolomei masters the art of silence, somehow managing to react, consider and protest, often without saying a single word.
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Happening (L’événement)
Happening (L’événement) | Awards
Golden Lion & FIPRESCI Award, Venice Film Festival 2021
Happening (L’événement) | Reviews
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The New York Times
Throughout, Diwan’s gaze remains clear, direct, fearless. She shows you a part of life that the movies rarely do.
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Los Angeles Times
Happening is a realist thriller that morphs, sans sentimentality or platitudes, into a quietly affecting portrait of female solidarity.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Vartolomei makes every moment comprehensible. It’s a beautifully judged performance.
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Chicago Reader
The no-holds-barred approach to the procedure and its aftermath is the kind of interpretation of real life that great cinema does best...
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IndieWire
Even as the camera closely follows her movements... it sometimes feels like Diwan’s keeping our heroine at an emotional arm’s length.
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Screen Daily
There’s a slight lack of dramatic tension in much of the lead-up to its harrowing finale...
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Hollywood Reporter
Often a tough watch, compassionate but brutally honest, and almost breathless in its chronicle of a struggle that has obviously stayed with the author for decades.
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The Guardian
Plays its private trauma as a harrowing thriller, and showcases a superb performance from Anamaria Vartolomei as Anne Duchesne, the agonised student in the spotlight.
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Variety
Filmed and performed in such a delicate, skin-soft register, meanwhile, that the escalating terror of Anne’s situation is all the more pronounced, eventually pivoting into a realm of wholly realism-based body horror.
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