Discovery and loss: Pierre Etaix 1928-2016
The French comic filmmaker Pierre Etaix, whose work spanned the decade of the ’60s only to vanish for 40 years before being rediscovered and restored in 2010, has died at the age of […]
Review: Happy Anniversary (1962)
Director: Pierre Étaix
Cast: Pierre Étaix, Georges Loriot, Laurence Lignières, Nono Zammit, Lucien Frégis,
Pierre Étaix
Georges Loriot
Laurence Lignières
Nono Zammit
Lucien Frégis
Plot: Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
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