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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Happening, it turns reproductive autonomy into an intensely immediate, procedural ordeal, using close observation, mounting time pressure, and an unsparing social environment.
02
Why this pick
Its quiet, intimate realism follows a young woman navigating a hostile system, with the same restrained camera work and devastating attention to practical vulnerability.
03
Why this pick
A morally clear but deeply human portrait of illegal abortion in an earlier Britain, sharing Happening’s period detail, social pressure, and refusal to sensationalize suffering.
04
Why this pick
Its rigorous, compassionate focus on a woman judged by society carries a similarly cool, precise visual style and an emotionally unsettling engagement with female experience.
05
Why this pick
A very different, satirical counterpoint to Happening: its gender-reversed pregnancy premise exposes the social assumptions that make Anne’s predicament so painfully unequal.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1963 France, Anne, a bright young student, gets pregnant, seeing her opportunities to finish her studies and excel slipping from her. As her final exams approach and her social life begins to fade, Anne's pregnancy progresses, forcing her to confront the shame and pain of an abortion, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Anne Duchesne
Jean
Hélène, une amie d'Anne
Olivia
le professeur Bornec
Gabrielle, la mère d'Anne
Claire, une étudiante
Mme Rivière, l'avorteuse
