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Happiness... Promised Land
Happiness... Promised Land
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HAPPINESS... PROMISED LAND

Le Bonheur... Terre Promise

Directed by Laurent Hasse
France, 2011
Documentary

Synopsis

Without preparation, and carrying only a backpack and a camera, the documentary filmmaker Laurent Hasse hiked from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern France. Unplanned and openhearted encounters with his compatriots begin with the question: “What’s your definition of happiness?”

Synopsis

Without preparation, and carrying only a backpack and a camera, the documentary filmmaker Laurent Hasse hiked from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern France. Unplanned and openhearted encounters with his compatriots begin with the question: “What’s your definition of happiness?”

Our take

What does happiness mean to you? The documentarist Laurent Hasse takes this perennial existential question to the road, where on a hike from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern France, he encounters a range of attitudes to pleasure and joy. We need more of that right now.