Happening

“With clear-eyed poise, the director Audrey Diwan captures the wrenching loneliness that can come with terminating an unwanted pregnancy—and how judgment of such a choice can be even more crushing than the possibility of breaking an unjust law.” Shirley Li, The Atlantic.

Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner revolves around a bright college student in early 1960s France who finds her emancipation threatened when she gets pregnant with no avenues for legal abortion.

R; 100 minutes; French with English subtitles