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If you are sick of all the crappy Hollywood chick flicks about the joy of pregnancy and over-the-top fantasies about pregnancies and the preggers looking awesome, then this is the right film for you. 



MOVIE OF THE WEEK: A Happy Event is a super hilarious yet weep-worthy French drama/comedy film directed by Rémi bezançon.

This is one of the highlighted films from the selections of Societe Generale 1st Rendezvous withFrench Cinema. 

 The film stars Louise Bourgoin as Barbara, a young graduate philosophy student doing her PHD, who is madly in love with her boyfriend Nicolas, played by Pio Marmai, who is the ultimate film geek. One of my favourite scenes is right at the front, which is the 2 lovebird’s courtship ritual, which involves conversing with movie titles. Truly endearing.

When she is deep into writing her thesis, she learns she is pregnant. Reeling from the initial shock, Barbara alter­nates between excitement and trepidation.

A Happy Event is a highly realistic, almost documentary-like account of a pregnancy. Anyone who was pregnant before will know that this film is super accurate, down to the minute details, like sitting on a rubber float, the results of her raging hormones that bring the story to highs and lows like a freaking rollercoaster (and that includes her deviant sexual fantasies *gangbang!*).

Amidst a flurry of congratulations, she tries in vain to conform to the image of the happy expectant mother, but is instead exasper­ated by the tedious yogic breathing classes, which she perceives as dog panting, and finds herself complaining to her girl­friend about her suffering (unsatisfying) sex life. Once her baby is born, everything becomes alarmingly real. She's faced with a helpless little being who needs everything from her—love most of all. But despite the support of those around her, including that of her devoted (but kinda immature) partner, Barbara struggles to con­nect with her child.

I am at the age which my maternal instincts are really soaring; sometimes I am naïve to think that love conquers all. Who would have thought that this little bundle of joy can also be the tension between loving couples? Apparently, the financial burden of having a baby is merely the tip of the iceberg...

Don’t worry, as the story ends off well, because against all odds, having a baby is still A Happy Event, just like the title. A Happy Event tries to be a tad philosophical, but I felt that it is just a good perspective and personal account, but Barbra will challenge my thought!

A Happy Event premieres 12th January 2012 in Golden Village and Alliance Francaise.

Do check out the other Societe Generale 1st Rendezvous with French Cinema films!

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