SummaryOn the evening of her 52nd birthday, Georgian literature teacher Manana unexpectedly announces to her family that she is leaving. She has been married for 30 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two children and her son-in-law.The members of her family represent three generations and are completely differe... Read More
Directed By:Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Written By:Nana Ekvtimishvili
My Happy Family
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
86
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
86
100% Positive
10 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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Dec 7, 2017
100
Many of the year’s best films feature female protagonists who are resolved to live on their own terms, and My Happy Family ranks right alongside them.
Jan 28, 2017
100
We’re left with a prickly kind of harmony that blends mundanity with profundity. There’s no more perfect a note for a film as intelligent, compassionate, and complex as “My Happy Family” to end on than that.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
75% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
20% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Oct 23, 2021
10
This movie captures the cultural and transcultural taboo of the loneliness versus sadness. The freedom that flood the movie is absolutely a question for all ov us
Jan 8, 2018
8
Beautiful picture, focused on a conflict between an individual and suffocating national family traditions.
Jan 28, 2017
91
It’s at once a celebration of individuality and its potential to unnerve those who resist it.
Feb 15, 2017
80
A low-key yet complex family drama, My Happy Family is a quietly devastating portrait of what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
Jan 28, 2017
80
Slow-paced but always absorbing, the film features a magnetic central performance by Ia Shugliashvili as one of the strongest, most quietly heroic introverts we’ve seen on screen in a while.
Nov 29, 2017
75
It casually lays out the domestic space where the story’s events takes place with acutely detailed cultural specificity.
Jan 28, 2017
70
Providing certain vivid detail but rather lacking in vitality, Ekvtimishvili’s screenplay is stronger on sociology than drama.
Jun 20, 2021
7
Es una película extranjera que se puede ver en Netflix; está muy bien realizada y es realista; las actuaciones son excelentes, la trama es buena y la cinematografía está decente; es recomendable y vale totalmente la pena.
Production Company:
- Arizona Films
- Augenschein Filmproduktion
- Georgian National Film Centre
- Polare Film
Release Date:Dec 1, 2017
Duration:2 h
Awards
Festival del Cinema Europeo
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Odesa International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
goEast
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
