One miserable couple collides with another comedy in “Happy, Happy”

By GalaTView Staff.

Foto Cortesy: Magnolia Pictures.

Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaia (Agnes Kittelsen). She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys and isn’t interested in having sex with her anymore because she “is not particularly attractive.” Whatever. That’s life.

But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaia struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir, they have also adopted a child from Ethiopia! These new neighbors open a whole new world to Kaia, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before even if Kaia tries her very best.

All the actors play well, but everyone is down-toned like they are affected by the weather, and the only two times they show emotion is after a sex scene (running outside while snowing almost naked) and while a fight between the two men (awkard and disorienting fight scene by the way). Other than that, it is a bland drama mixed with drops of comedy (black) a spit of racism, an understatement of men trying to hide their homosexuality by making a family, some affairs made for revenge or from lack of affection that came from the fact a couple cannot have their own kid. Therefore, It is the typical Norwegian “comedy” more awkward than funny, with a persistent serious vibe that runs through the movie but never takes over and make us smile (not laugh) as well.

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