How Happening Shows Fear and Power Through Silence
“What’s your problem?” “Solitude.” This simple yet poetic exchange fromAudrey Diwan’s harrowing new film,Happening, contains multitudes of meaning. What is seemingly a throwaway conversation that could have easily been overlooked becomes as illuminating and devastating as the magnificent film itself. With a single word of response, an arrestingAnamaria Vartolomeicaptures the crisis facing her character, Anne. A college student studying literature in France in the 1960s, she enjoys going out dancing with her friends and has big aspirations for her future....