Happening (2021)

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Wikidata Q107675028, film, IMDb tt13880104, TMDB 793998: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Audrey Diwan as director (The Top Five Movies of 2022).

The shows' “The Happening” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 1 episode; The Happening (2008) in 4 episodes.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Saint Omer: 2 lines verdict ×2

  1. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Blonde: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Happening → Blonde. Amanda says Andrew Dominik should be made to rewatch Happening's abortion scene as penance for Blonde.
    “I think that Andrew Dominic should be sentenced to rewatching the abortion scene in this movie for the rest of his life is penance for what he did in blonde”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Happening → Blonde. Amanda says Andrew Dominik should be made to rewatch Happening's abortion scene as penance for Blonde.
    “I think that Andrew Dominic should be sentenced to rewatching the abortion scene in this movie for the rest of his life is penance for what he did in blonde”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Saint Omer → Happening. Adam notes Saint Omer was France's Oscar submission over Happening, and says France did not make a bad call.
    “So with all with all respect to happening, which is a really good movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:02 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Happening: Amanda tried not to pick it because of another year of abortion dramas in her top five, noting the timing alongside the overturning of Roe v. Wade; she calls it a week-by-week thriller.
    “another year, another abortion drama in my top 5 list”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.