Happy Memories (1981)

Original title

Les beaux souvenirs

Directed by

Francis Mankiewicz

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman returns to her rural family home years after running away. She reconnects with her sister, who is in a taboo relationship with their father, and with her mother, who also left the family long ago.

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What happens

Happy Memories (French: Les Beaux Souvenirs) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Francis Mankiewicz and released in 1981. Identified by film critics as a spiritual if not literal sequel to his previous film Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras), the film stars Julie Vincent as Viviane, a young woman returning home for the first time since running away several years earlier. The film also stars Monique Spaziani as Viviane's sister Marie, who has an incestuous relationship with their father (Paul Hébert); Andrée Lachapelle as their mother, who also abandoned the family years earlier; and Rémy Girard as their mother's new partner. The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 3rd Genie Awards: Best Actress (Spaziani), Best Screenplay (Réjean Ducharme) and Best Original Score (Jean Cousineau). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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