Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Sarah Boslaugh @ The Arts STL
- Excerpt: Vartolmei delivers a remarkable performance, underplaying Anne’s emotional responses in a way that makes them register all the more strongly on the viewer.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Using a 1.37:1 aspect ratio which keeps us intensely within Anne’s point of view, “Happening” envisions her circumstance as a claustrophobic, ever-tightening vise. It is impossible to watch this horrifying, true story from 1963 France without contemplating the U.S. in 2022.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: An intense, intimate tale of historical illegal abortion, with a central performance of focused terror; a harrowing body horror that looms again. I cannot overstate the absolute urgency of this film.
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: Winner of the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Happening is an unflinching portrayal of the horrors that far too many people around the world have gone through—and still go through—in order to exercise control over their own bodies.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: No matter where you come down on the abortion issue, Happening is a film worthy of your time and consideration.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Vartolomei is revelatory in the role. She toes the line between tragic and empowering in a way that makes it hard to believe the Romanian actor has so few credits to her name beyond short films.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Audrey Diwan’s sensitive directing, the carefully honest, realistic script and Anamaria Vartolomei’s natural, raw dramatization create a courageous, important, seminal film on female sexuality and reproductive rights.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Diwan’s film is an emotional drama that is just engaging enough for us to get involved but just spare enough for us to see the issue of illegal abortion with all of its unsparing reality.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
- [New] | Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It manages to build a feminist story, which shows us how little progress we have made in the last sixty years regarding abortion and the rights that women have in relation to said procedure.
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