My Happy Family

[An] enthralling and masterful achievement.

The scenes with Manana's relatives are masterful presentations of family as an overwhelming experience.

Remarkable blend of comedy and sadness.

It may well be the best film I've seen this year.

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.

An interesting sociological perspective on a changing patriarchal society.

The sparseness and patience of My Happy Family are integral to its power, matching the inscrutability of Manana herself.

My Happy Family casually lays out the domestic space where the story's events takes place with acutely detailed cultural specificity.

My Happy Family borrows and remixes the social realism and aesthetic formalism of the Dardennes in a way that allows it to exude an energy all its own.

A quietly devastating portrait of what it means to be a woman in a man's world.

A small jewel of a film that gives this women-in-a-man's-world viewpoint a generational shift.