A Happy Event (2011)
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Director:
Rémi Bezançon
Writers:
Vanessa Portal, Rémi Bezançon.
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Louise Bourgoin as Barbara |
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Pio Marmaï as Nicolas |
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Josiane Balasko as Claire |
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Thierry Frémont as Tony |
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Gabrielle Lazure as Édith |
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Firmine Richard as La sage-femme |
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Anaïs Croze as Daphné |
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Daphné Bürki as Katia - la soeur de Barbara |
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Lannick Gautry as Le docteur Camille Rose |
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Nicole Valberg as La gynécologue |
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Jean-François Truffard - le prof de philo |
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Ophélie Koering as La vendeuse du sex-shop |
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Amélie Glenn as La vendeuse du Maman à Tous Prix |
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Patrick Spadrille as Daniel |
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Bruno Georis as Le docteur Marcaurel |
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Dominique Baeyens as Mme Tordjmann - la voisine |
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Michel Nabokoff as M. Tordjman - le voisin |
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Aïssatou Diop as Une femme membre du Club du Lait |
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Fanny Hanciaux as Une femme membre du Club du Lait |
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Laure Voglaire as Une femme membre du Club du Lait |
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Marcos Adamantiadis as Un dépanneur de chez Darty |
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Erika Sainte as La présentatrice TV |
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Eric Larcin as Roger - le dépanneur du frigo |
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Naïma Ostrowski as L'anésthétiste |
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Nell Van Houtte as Barbara à 4 ans |
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Myriem Akheddiou as L'infirmière de la maternité |
| Directing | Rémi Bezançon | Director |
| Writing | Vanessa Portal | Screenplay |
| Writing | Rémi Bezançon | Screenplay |
| Writing | Éliette Abécassis | Novel |
| Editing | Sophie Reine | Editor |
| Art | Maamar Ech-Cheikh | Production Design |
| Art | Florin Dima | Set Decoration |
| Art | Catherine Werner Schmit | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marie-Laure Lasson | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christian Schnezler | Costume Design |
| Camera | Antoine Monod | Director of Photography |