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What Makes You Happy

Name: What Makes You Happy
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Released: 2006
Duration: 85 min

Representation Score

5.8/10

Fair

2006

Director

Joachim Lafosse

Runtime

85 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Joachim Lafosse’s debut is a meta-commentary on the film industry, critiquing professional and personal failures. It avoids the 'triumphant artist' cliché, instead focusing on the instability of systems. While the film offers a sophisticated look at emotional instability and the breakdown of intimacy, it lacks broad demographic representation.

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Category Breakdown

Does What Makes You Happy have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film focuses on a conventional romantic relationship without featuring non-straight identities or queer themes, staying within the realm of straight relationships.

How does What Makes You Happy portray gender?

Fair

The story challenges traditional gender roles by showing the male protagonist as vulnerable and ineffective, shifting power dynamics towards chaos.

How racially and ethnically diverse is What Makes You Happy?

Limited

The film seems to have a homogeneous cast centered around a specific social group, lacking significant racial or ethnic diversity in its main characters.

How does What Makes You Happy represent religion and culture?

Good

The story questions capitalist values by presenting professional success as superficial. It emphasizes subjective morality and the fragility of identity in modern society.

Does What Makes You Happy include disability representation?

Limited

The film does not feature visible or invisible disabilities. It focuses on psychological and professional struggles rather than neurodivergence or physical disabilities.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional gender roles by depicting a vulnerable, ineffective male protagonist.
Questions capitalist ideals and the myth of the self-made creator through its narrative.
Explores emotional instability and the breakdown of intimacy in a nuanced manner.

Limited or Absent

Lacks significant racial and ethnic diversity in the main characters.
Does not provide much representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight themes.
Does not include visible or invisible disability representation in the core narrative.

Official Synopsis

The efforts of a Belgian director who has to stick posters of his film everywhere and harass crowds to get people to come and see his film. When it turns out to be a flop, he is jobless and his partner leaves him. An ironic account of rising director Joachim La Fosse’s directing debut.

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