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Venice Review: Golden Lion Winner ‘L’Événement’ (Happening)

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In Annus Mirabilis, the English poet Philip Larkin wrote that sexual intercourse was invented in 1963. Life was thus never better, he concluded, than in that year.

Those lines strayed into my mind watching L’Événement (Happening), about a student in provincial France named Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) who realizes she is pregnant during the countdown to her final examinations.The year is 1963.

Larkin watched as sex was invented “rather late for me.” Anne is trying to invent her life. The exam will determine whether she can go to university, leaving behind her provincial college and the neighborhood bar her parents run.

This is not about sex at all. The young man responsible barely features; he is dumbfounded, as helpless as she is but, in the

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