Audrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei on Happening, NDNF51
Q A from the 51st New Directors, New Films withHappeningdirector Audrey Diwan and lead Anamaria Vartolomei on their Opening Night selection. The conversation was moderated by The Museum of Modern Art programmer Josh Siegel. Winner of the Venice International Film Festivals prestigious Golden Lion, Audrey Diwans exceptionally wellobserved breakthrough is an unsparing, gripping portrait of a young womans attempts to secure an illegal abortion in 1960s France. A student of ambition and promise, hoping to leave her small town and embark on a professional life of the mind, Anne Duchesne (Anamaria Vartolomei in a brave, overwhelming performance) finds her entire future thrown into doubt upon discovering that shes pregnant. Sure to be one of the most talkedabout movies of the year, Happening, based on the semiautobiographical novel by acclaimed author Annie Ernaux, is a drama that incrementally builds in power, showing the stepbystep process by which an ordinary young woman attempts to establish
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