HAPPENING
 All Critics (161) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (160) | Rotten (1)
 It’s brutal in spots, but especially vital to watch right now.
 
 August 5, 2022
 
 Alissa Wilkinson
 Vox
 TOP CRITIC
 the film, calibrated in passing weeks, closely tracks Anne’s efforts – greatly circumscribed and increasingly desperate – to choose her own future.
 
 August 2, 2022
 
 Anton Bitel
 Little White Lies
 TOP CRITIC
 Anamaria Vartolomei’s lead performance is necessarily and intensely physical—and subject to some harrowing bodily choreography in the homestretch—but what binds us to her is a sense of the perceptive, gifted writer trapped behind weary, terrified eyes.
 
 July 9, 2022
 
 Adam Nayman
 The Ringer
 TOP CRITIC
 Not a moment feels didactic, and Anne never seems like a case study. Instead, the film thrums with the practical resolve of a young woman desperate to begin her own life before creating another.
 
 June 10, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Danny Leigh
 Financial Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Despite its decades-ago setting, Happening has never been more relevant, particularly for audiences in America. Diwan’s drama serves as a warning of what people may experience if Roe is overturned.
 
 May 17, 2022 | Rating: A-
 
 Kimber Myers
 Crooked Marquee
 TOP CRITIC
 The no-holds-barred approach to the abortion procedure and its aftermath is the kind of interpretation of real life that great cinema does best.
 
 May 14, 2022
 
 Kathleen Sachs
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 The most-need-to-be-seen feature of the year . . . . In this grippingly honest, no-holds-barred film, a 23-year-old lit student seeks an abortion in 1963 France, an act for which she, her doctor, and anyone else who aids her can be sent to prison.
 
 August 14, 2022 | Rating: 9/10
 
 Brandon Judell
 Brandon Judell (Medium)
 When Diwan has to choose between reckoning the protagonist or impacting the audience, she chooses the latter. And for a few minutes, everything falls apart… almost impeccable otherwise. Almost. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 August 8, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Victor Esquirol
 Otroscines.com
 No, it’s not an upbeat subject. But perhaps now, with Roe overturned and people experiencing the consequences of abortion bans, it’s time to watch this movie.
 
 July 28, 2022 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
 Margot Harrison
 Seven Days
 Diwan relies on a raw and daring mise-en-scène, and avoids becoming a pamphlet. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 July 26, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Juan Pablo Russo
 EscribiendoCine
 Happening is an honest, harrowing, frighteningly timely, moving, and powerful experience.
 
 July 25, 2022 | Rating: 10/10
 
 Matt Hudson
 What I Watched Tonight
 Happening presenta con firmeza cómo la experiencia traumática no radica en el acto del aborto en sí, sino en el terror que genera un embarazo forzado por falta de apoyo médico adecuado.
 
 July 4, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Josie Melendez
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