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Happening Reviews
Artful and socially resonant, Happening is one of the most poignant and moving films of the year.
| Dec 27, 2022
A film of international importance, told with empathy, sincerity and anger.
| Dec 13, 2022
It’s brutal in spots, but especially vital to watch right now.
| Aug 5, 2022
the film, calibrated in passing weeks, closely tracks Anne’s efforts – greatly circumscribed and increasingly desperate – to choose her own future.
| Aug 2, 2022
Anamaria Vartolomei’s lead performance is necessarily and intensely physical—and subject to some harrowing bodily choreography in the homestretch—but what binds us to her is a sense of the perceptive, gifted writer trapped behind weary, terrified eyes.
| Jul 9, 2022
Not a moment feels didactic, and Anne never seems like a case study. Instead, the film thrums with the practical resolve of a young woman desperate to begin her own life before creating another.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2022
Despite its decades-ago setting, Happening has never been more relevant, particularly for audiences in America. Diwan’s drama serves as a warning of what people may experience if Roe is overturned.
| Original Score: A- | May 17, 2022
The no-holds-barred approach to the abortion procedure and its aftermath is the kind of interpretation of real life that great cinema does best.
| May 14, 2022
Happening goes further as a beautiful coming-of-age story, where Anne’s long pursuit to end the pregnancy is also one of self-discovery.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 13, 2022
Whether you condone this film or condemn it, “Happening” presents a brutal reality.
| Original Score: 4/4 | May 12, 2022
"Happening" isn't a political movie, it's a horror movie.
| Original Score: A- | May 12, 2022
A sobering reminder that the consequences of limiting access to safe medical care aren’t just theoretical but existential.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2022
Audrey Diwan’s film recreates a woman’s isolating, wrenching efforts to get an abortion in France in the 1960s.
| May 12, 2022
Poignant, pressing and important.
| May 12, 2022
A smart, engaging, and well-made film.
| May 12, 2022
Vartolomei’s performance is amazing. The way her face registers everything she endures, from grim determination to frustration to mental and physical agony, seems genuine, authentic.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 11, 2022
It feels like it was made for this moment... Eerily prescient.
| May 10, 2022
The film has a dispassionate air about it -- which makes it even scarier -- but sometimes it goes a little overboard in its semi-documentary direction. But it's quite a powerful experience.
| May 10, 2022
Absolutely not for the faint of heart, the movie catalogs the horrors Anne experiences while trying to terminate the pregnancy so that she can stay the course as a scholar and chart her own fate. Happening could not be more staggering, or timely.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2022