My Happy Family

Name: My Happy Family
Genre: Drama
Released: December 1, 2017
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Berta Khapava, Dimitri Oragvelidze, Giorgi Gio Tabidze, Giorgi Khurtsilava, Goven Cheishvili

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): December 1, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Berta Khapava, Dimitri Oragvelidze, Giorgi Gio Tabidze, Giorgi Khurtsilava, Goven Cheishvili, Ia Shugliashvili, Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Merab Ninidze, Tsisia Qumsishvili

Summary: On 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 completelyOn 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 different from each other: Manana's husband Soso (55); their daughter Nino (24), who is married and adores her husband Vakho (27); Manana's son Lasha (20); Manana's mother Lamara (72), the pillar of the family who takes care of everybody; and Manana's father Otar (80), who after a long and exhausting life, dreams of death which seems slow in coming. Initially, the family don't take Manana's decision seriously. But then she packs her suitcase and leaves. The family is shocked and incredulous: where is she going? Who upset her? She is past 'divorce age' after all, and has a good husband who doesn’t drink, take drugs or beat her.… Expand

Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gro

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Dec 7, 2017

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. Read full review

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Bilge Ebiri

Jan 28, 2017

There isn’t a single second that doesn’t ring as achingly true. Read full review

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The Playlist Andrew Crump

Jan 28, 2017

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. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Jan 28, 2017

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. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

Feb 15, 2017

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. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Jan 28, 2017

It’s a simple, somewhat mundane scenario that, in the hands of a terrific cast and two talented filmmakers, is transformed into a minor Greek comic-tragedy, with one fearless woman trying to stave off loved ones who smother her with guilt and affection. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Jan 28, 2017

Providing certain vivid detail but rather lacking in vitality, Ekvtimishvili’s screenplay is stronger on sociology than drama. Read full review

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johangeist

Oct 23, 2021

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