World Cinema Grand Jury Prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Happy, Happy is a sexy comedy that takes delight in indiscretion and snowy romps. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) is endlessly chipper (think Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky), although sex is in short supply. Her somewhat dour husband, Eirik (Joachim Rafaelsen, Elling) and young son fail to share her enthusiasm when a new couple and their adopted son move in next door. Elisabeth (Maibritt Saerens, Frederikke, SFF 2008) and Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen) are sophisticated, beautiful and they can sing - in short, they're everything Kaja would like to be or do. Dinner party conversations soon reveal the cracks in the façade and before you know it neighbours are bonking neighbours. A Greek chorus singing traditional American spirituals and hymns lightens the darker moments of Anne Sewitsky's effervescent debut.
2 min 1 sec
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12,021
Posted On
June 19, 2011
Anne Sewitsky
Writer
Ragnhild Tronvoll
Studio
Independent
Release
September 16, 2011
Agnes Kittelsen
Henrik Rafaelsen
Joachim Rafaelsen
Maibritt Saerens
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