The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, September 21-27
Le Bonheur (1965)
Directed by Agnès Varda
With the colors and brush strokes of impressionism, Varda paints the bucolic portait of familial happiness as François, his wife Thérèse and their children enjoy a life of near perfection. An extramarital affair is poised to alter forever the alchemical balance of this imagined family when one spouse is found dead. When a new lover moves in life shortly after, nothing seems to change as life, oblivious of any departure, continues in its idyllic course. And yet something like a bitter aftertaste lingers in the spectator’s mouth, unsure as to how to process this sinister tale of total, ostensible happiness. September 25, 2pm at the Museum of the Moving Image’s Varda series, in conjunction with a forthcoming Reverse Shot symposium)