Grandir (O Happy Days!)

Grandir (O Happy Days!) (2013)

Grandir

In 2002, on the occasion of her brother’s wedding, Dominique Cabrera begun to shoot the gathering, and decided to continue over 10 years, time imprinting its marks on her family and "becoming the film" as she expresses it. Halfway between Agnès Varda and Alain Cavalier, Dominique Cabrera delivers a sensitive film both intimate and universal: "Ten years ago, my brother Bernard got married for the second time. We all went to the wedding in Boston, where he lives. It felt as if we were four little children again with our mom and dad. I had brought along a small camera, which I began to use to film our family. I've continued to this day..."

Date of release
2013-10-23
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Documentary, Family
Director
Dominique Cabrera

Casting

Interesting facts

Grandir is a 2013 first-person French documentary film by Dominique Cabrera. The film, whose working title was O Happy Days!, is a follow-up to the filmmaker's 1995 film diary Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again. In Grandir, Cabrera expanded her diaristic approach, starting by filming family at her brother's wedding in Massachusetts. According to the filmmaker, this was a way of appreciating them more deeply, cherishing them while they're alive. From there, the filmmaker continued recording events and gatherings – holidays, births, and her father's funeral – in the hopes of grappling with family secrets, which might explain her anxiety and persistent insomnia.

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