Synopsis
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.
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Cast
- Ia ShugliashviliManana
- Merab NinidzeSoso
- Berta KhapavaLamara
- Tsisia QumsashviliNino
- Giorgi KhurtsilavaVakho
- Giorgi TabidzeLasha
- Goven CheishviliOtar
- Dimitri OragvelidzeRezo
Recommendations
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The Playlist
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. - 100
Village Voice
There isn’t a single second that doesn’t ring as achingly true. - 100
RogerEbert.com
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. - 91
IndieWire
It’s at once a celebration of individuality and its potential to unnerve those who resist it. - 83
The Film Stage
With a remarkable fullness of understanding, it tells a deeply personal story while revealing essential human truths, all without ever feeling constructed or false. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 80
Screen Daily
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. - 80
CineVue
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.
