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Maison du Bonheur

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Canada · 2018
1h 2m
Director Sofia Bohdanowicz
Starring Juliane Sellam, Albert Eddassouki, Manouk Kurdoghlian, Claude Tougard-Lumbroso
Genre Documentary

An endearing picture of the everyday life of 77-year-old Juliane, a long-time resident of Paris, alone in her Montmartre apartment. Divided into 30 carefully constructed segments, this experimental documentary is rich in personal detail and playful in tone.

Stream Maison du Bonheur

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90

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

Bohdanowicz undertook the project without having previously met her subject, but for both the filmmaker and her audience, making Sellam’s acquaintance proves a rare pleasure.

88

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

Maison du bonheur is a thoughtful, affecting study of the space we choose to take up in this world, and what happens when we grow old enough to realize the truth and consequences of those decisions.

75

Film Journal International by David Noh

Although hardly conceived or executed on the scale of his work, Proust kept popping into my mind as I watched this disarming film, with its meditative accretion of the fascinating little details that comprise a life.

80

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Ms. Bohdanowicz’s self-interrogation is clearly important to her art, but I think she worries too much, at least where this subject is concerned. Her hostess, a model of charm, good humor and senior wisdom, is a movie unto herself.

60

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Though those glimpses don't add up to what most people would call a portrait, they do evoke a life of old-fashioned female pampering, and contain just enough of Sellam's quirky personality to make those habits charming.

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