Described by Varda as “a summer peach with a worm inside,” Le bonheur (Happiness) is a beautiful and strikingly unnerving film that outraged audiences in the ’60s and still retains all of its moral-twisting power today. Shot like an impressionist painting come to life, it uses the story of how a husband’s infidelity affects (and doesn’t affect) his familial bliss to explore the fragile nature of happiness itself. The result is a deeply complex and often contradictory emotional experience that leaves its mark by wrenching the heart as fervently as it stirs the mind. This is the kind of film you find yourself debating long after it’s over. (DVD)