A Happy Event

A Happy Event

2011•1h 47m•6.0/10

DramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(229)

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.

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Production

Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma, SCOPE Pictures, RTBF, Mandarin Cinéma

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Louise Bourgoin

Louise Bourgoin

Barbara

Pio Marmaï

Pio Marmaï

Nicolas

Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko

Claire

Thierry Frémont

Thierry Frémont

Tony

Gabrielle Lazure

Gabrielle Lazure

Édith

Firmine Richard

Firmine Richard

La sage-femme

Anaïs Croze

Anaïs Croze

Daphné

Daphné Bürki

Daphné Bürki

Katia - la soeur de Barbara

Lannick Gautry

Lannick Gautry

Le docteur Camille Rose

Nicole Valberg

Nicole Valberg

La gynécologue

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Jean-François Truffard - le prof de philo

Ophélie Koering

Ophélie Koering

La vendeuse du sex-shop

Amélie Glenn

Amélie Glenn

La vendeuse du Maman à Tous Prix

Patrick Spadrille

Daniel

Bruno Georis

Bruno Georis

Le docteur Marcaurel

Dominique Baeyens

Mme Tordjmann - la voisine

Michel Nabokoff

Michel Nabokoff

M. Tordjman - le voisin

Aïssatou Diop

Aïssatou Diop

Une femme membre du Club du Lait

Fanny Hanciaux

Fanny Hanciaux

Une femme membre du Club du Lait

Laure Voglaire

Une femme membre du Club du Lait

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