A Happy Event

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.

Cast

Louise Bourgoin

as Barbara

Pio Marmaï

as Nicolas

Josiane Balasko

as Claire

Thierry Frémont

as Tony

Gabrielle Lazure

as Édith

Firmine Richard

as La sage-femme

Anaïs Croze

as Daphné

Daphné Bürki

as Katia - la soeur de Barbara

Lannick Gautry

as Le docteur Camille Rose

Nicole Valberg

as La gynécologue

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