UW Cinematheque - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
Le Bonheur | France | 1965 | DCP | 80 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Agnès Varda
Event Details
Date
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Time
5 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer
Describing the unexpected bitterness of Le Bonheur, Agnès Varda once offered a provocative and resonant metaphor: “I imagined a summer peach, with its perfect colors, and inside there is a worm.” Despite its wealth of luscious pastels, Varda’s first film in color finds potent irony in these warm and inviting surfaces. The film follows the Chevalier family, initially a portrait of domestic harmony.
Describing the unexpected bitterness of Le Bonheur, Agnès Varda once offered a provocative and resonant metaphor: “I imagined a summer peach, with its perfect colors, and inside there is a worm.” Despite its wealth of luscious pastels, Varda’s first film in color finds potent irony in these warm and inviting surfaces. The film follows the Chevalier family, initially a portrait of domestic harmony.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, June 14, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.