Synopsis
Happy Birthday (Fête de famille, 2019) is a French family drama by Cédric Kahn, available to watch online on iFILM. Catherine Deneuve plays Andréa, who gathers her children and grandchildren at her big house near the Loire to mark her birthday — and the whole film unfolds across that single day.
It starts gently: a laid table, a summer garden, three generations under one roof. Then Claire arrives, the daughter nobody can ever quite predict. Emmanuelle Bercot plays her on a raw nerve, and her return pries open old grievances and unsettled scores the family has spent years pretending not to see. The celebration slowly curdles into a reckoning where the funny and the painful sit side by side. Kahn shoots it almost like a real-time stage play, handing the floor to his actors. Deneuve is measured and exact, and the tension comes not from plot turns but from how people who love each other know exactly where to wound. Intimate cinema for anyone who recognises their own family dinners. Stream Happy Birthday online on iFILM.
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