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Aren't You Happy?
Aren't You Happy?
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AREN'T YOU HAPPY?

Das melancholische Mädchen

Directed by Susanne Heinrich
Germany, 2019
Comedy

Synopsis

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep and has absurd encounters with mothers, drag queens and an abstinent existentialist. She finds no space between galleries, yoga studios and strangers’ beds. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts seeing her depression as a political issue.

Synopsis

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep and has absurd encounters with mothers, drag queens and an abstinent existentialist. She finds no space between galleries, yoga studios and strangers’ beds. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts seeing her depression as a political issue.

Our take

Staring at the camera blankly, a disaffected thirty year old in a cream faux-fur coat makes statements on contemporary femininity with deadpan delivery. Belonging to a lineage of pop critique that goes from Jean-Luc Godard to Amalia Ulman, Aren’t You Happy? takes ironic pleasure in extreme artifice.