The Happy Film

2017
7.4| 1h35m| en| More Info
Released: 17 August 2017 Released
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Country: United States of America
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New York designer Stefan Sagmeister lives in the city of his dreams, and creates work for the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jay-Z. Business is good, creative juices are flowing, and yet he suspects there must be more to life. Sagmeister takes on the daunting project of changing his personality by trying to figure out the causes of happiness. On the advice of a trusted psychologist Sagmeister experiments with three different approaches: meditation, therapy, and drugs. The Happy Film follows his pursuit, and all that he encounters along the way: joy, ecstasy, heartbreak, change, love, and death.

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XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
williamandrewsthefirst I thought this was a self-involved navel-gazing atrocity. I'm not even trying to be mean, just realistic. You cannot make a film about the self like this. Considering they're a design firm, their transitions are nice, however, this doesn't warrant making a movie. Graphic design doesn't translate to cinema. He just seems like a serial womanizer with unrealistic expectations. This could have been reduced to a good short on YouTube. He's pretty affluent and has nothing at all to be sad about. Champagne problems. The only place I can really see this being seriously screened is in a dentist's waiting room.
lotharlehner Well - after I discovered this film on Austrian TV, I had to re-watch it with several friends at least 3 times - and then order the DVDs.... because it will never ever bore me.The artistic mix of sensitivity, a classy humor, the amazing stylish clips, that are involved in the whole story, and the touching story, wrapped in the intelligence and honesty of the movies creators...Some of you might have problems to get into the special way, the very personal narrative style of Mister Sagmeister... but for most of you it will work. Take a seat, relax and open your eyes, and this film might open your heart in a way that you did not experience before.Happiness and empathy for all of us! We need more of that everywhere! ****
thelindalam Stefan Sagmeister didn't disappoint with this visually pleasing documentary that has been highly anticipated since I heard of the announcement on Kickstarter in 2011. Being a big Sagmeister fan myself, I've come to know that his ideas are often so brilliant and out of the ordinary and with the film it was consistent and evoked so many emotions. He's so candid with life -- with the raw unfiltered thoughts throughout his journey and experiment, to the hilarious behind the scene snippets behind his life mantras.I never thought I could relate to his story, but I ended up finding a bit of comfort and understanding through his personal experiences, especially when he touched upon love and relationships over the years. I'm definitely eager to see this film again.
Niki Ernst The question about happiness is something crucial to mankind and yet profane to answer. I would not want to have a general answer, but after watching the happy film, I felt enriched with new questions to find my own answer to this question.I have been at Stefans Happy Show in Vienna, several times, at it was so clear to me. It gave me clear and convertable inspiration on my own path to happiness. I did not leave the show with a question and I was purely happy, already.With the film, I learned that no one can give me a path to my own happiness, although everything from the show still made a lot of sense, the film added the important questions to stay on the track towards happiness, because happiness is never a status to achieve longer than temporarily but always a status worth chasing long term.Thank you, Stefan, for producing this. I feel empathetic about how many sets of emotions you must have gone through when re-living every scene of your life a hundred times.

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