OUR HAPPIEST DAYS
a film by Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière
FEATURE PRESENTATION
JUNE 22, 2023 • 8:00 PM
@ LIGHT HOUSE ARTS CENTRE
(1800 ARGYLE STREET, HALIFAX)
2021 / ARGENTINA / 100 mins
The day before Agathe’s 74th birthday, she wakes up in her eight-year-old body. Her estranged daughter Elisa returns home to assist her son, Leonides, in navigating the fantastical problem she finds herself in. The reversal of the parent and child relationship opens up the chance for the trio to heal old wounds. Our Happiest Days (Nuestros Días Más Felices) is a meditation on motherhood, love, and the adult child/parent relationship, employing magical realism to hit tender truths. This film is Pichon-Riviere’s follow up to her acclaimed first feature, Mamá, Mamá, Mamá (HIFF 2021). —Tori Fleming
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière
Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière is a multidisciplinary artist, trained at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, the city where she currently lives. After winning the 2017 Ópera Prima award at INCAA, she was able to develop her first feature film, Mamá, mamá, mamá, awarded at the Berlinale and selected in San Sebastián, Valdivia or Mar del Plata.