Aren’t You Happy?

Aren’t You Happy?

2DCS/ES15
Director:Susanne Heinrich
Cast:Marie Rathscheck, Yann Grouhel, Pero Radicic, Nicolo Pasetti
Premiere:17. October 2019
Length:80 minutes
Genre:Comedy

Director: Susanne Heinrich  •  Cast: Marie Rathscheck, Yann Grouhel, Pero Radicic, Nicolo Pasetti, Alexander von Hugo

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is "just another market", and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue. Through 15 of the girl’s humorous encounters, "Aren't You Happy?" explores our post-modern society between precarity and self-marketing, serial monogamy and neo-spirituality, disillusionment and the pressure to be happy.

Length: 80 min

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 17. October 2019

Country of origin:

  • Germany

Director: Susanne Heinrich  •  Cast: Marie Rathscheck, Yann Grouhel, Pero Radicic, Nicolo Pasetti, Alexander von Hugo

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is "just another market", and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue. Through 15 of the girl’s humorous encounters, "Aren't You Happy?" explores our post-modern society between precarity and self-marketing, serial monogamy and neo-spirituality, disillusionment and the pressure to be happy.

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 17. October 2019

Country of origin:

  • Germany