Alexandre Franchi follows up on his remarkable The Wild Hunt by pitting a troubled young man and a group of disfigured patients against social conformity. An idiosyncratic work that relentlessly hones its sense of the grotesque.
Stanislas, 19, is left on his own when his mother is hospitalized. Terrorized by her illness, he wraps his face in bandages and infiltrates a therapy workshop for disfigured patients, whom he urges to rebel against society’s obsession with beauty by brandishing their “ugliness” as a weapon. Alexandre Franchi follows up on his remarkable The Wild Hunt (FNC 2009) with this work that’s equally idiosyncratic. Carried by a disquieting New Wave soundtrack, Happy Face is...
Feature film , Drama
QUéBEC/CANADA | 100 minutes | 2018
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