Marie-France Boyer

In this madcap super-spy caper, secret agents descend upon the home of a scientist who has devised an invention that can incapacitate nuclear bombs.

Agnès Varda’s color-saturated third feature is a thorough takedown of the nuclear family, which deconstructs the one-way relationship of a husband and wife and their apparently idyllic life together. Bold, sun-drenched and provoking, Le bonheur is a proto-feminist time bomb that’s ready to detonate.