Movie Log: Happenstance

Yes, Audrey Tatou again. What can I say? She's awfully cute. We saw Happenstance because we'd liked Amelie (it was made by some of the same people, and of course starred Tatou), and because it wandered to the top of the Netflix queue almost without us noticing.

As is too common with these posts, we saw this movie a good week ago, so my memory is not as fresh as it should be. And it's a meandering, loosely-connected movie -- that's the whole point of it -- so it can be difficult to recreate all of those small connections later on. This is a movie centered around four or five characters (who don't all know each other at all), and concerning itself with their random connections and a series of unlikely events that all take place (I think) during one day.

Most of those people, my wife and I started to agree, are jerks at best -- although, I should admit, that I'm not sure if we took into account the fact that they are all French, and the bar for jerky behavior is set higher there. Tatou and the male character who is the least obnoxious do end up together, finally, at the end, which seems to be the whole point of the exercise.

Happenstance is a very light, airy movie -- it mostly consists of scenes of people talking to each other, or going about their daily business, and those scenes are pretty loosely connected. Don't go see it if you want serious drama, but it's a pleasant way to spend a few hours, and the characters are all engaging and real, even if most of them aren't all that nice.