SummaryHappy Life is a low budget dark comedy about the world of techno music. Kieth, a thirty-something trance DJ who’s going through a major crisis. He’s recently been fired from his residency spinning at an upscale tapas restaurant, and, worse, his specialty record store, New York Tunez, is on its last leg. In a final effort to save both his store a... Read More
Directed By:Michael M. Bilandic
Written By:Michael M. Bilandic
Happy Life
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Oct 10, 2011
75
First-time writer-director Michael M. Bilandic's tongue-in-cheek, bare-knuckles approach to his ultra-low budget paean to a dying breed is a welcome piece of independent filmmaking.
Oct 16, 2011
60
Set in cramped apartments and hole-in-the-wall storefronts in the East Village, Michael M. Bilandic's nanobudget comedy Happy Life plays like a poor schlub's "High Fidelity."
Oct 11, 2011
60
The most spot-on scenes show passive-aggressive hipster clerks snorting at Keith's flyers for a comeback fundraiser rave and a city suffocating on its own cool.
Oct 13, 2011
40
The film advances the "let's put on a show" genre into a grim and hopeless direction, just right for hard times. In different hands Happy Life might become a decent movie. Maybe it's best thought of as a demo.
Oct 12, 2011
33
The roughness of Happy Life's production values and the inconsistency of its amateur actors would be forgivable if it showed any heart, but this low-budget ramble about techno's glory days instead inspires relief that things have moved on.
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Production Company:
- Tilt Pocket
Release Date:Oct 14, 2011
Duration:1 h 13 m
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