FOR BETTER AND FOR WORST

As Jean, a conservative, campaigns to be re–elected mayor of a small town in northern France, Edith, his spouse of 40 years, tells him a secret that she can no longer repress: in her heart, she is – and always has been – a man. At first Jean thinks she is joking, but he quickly understands that Edith is determined to transition. Both his marriage and his campaign are in for a serious shakeup.

• A happy man keeps things simple, recounting … the taming of a journey that a person has denied himself all his life… Tristan Séguéla’s film also makes wonderful use of its duo of actors… Catherine Frot portrays all the fragility and determination of a character advancing towards an unknown self…  Fabrice Luchini offers a delectable performance in the skin of a man categorically refusing to adapt to the present moment… Luchini truly shines by presenting a particularly touching facet of this man in search of landmarks and whose intentions we will doubt..
  Jean-François Vandeuren – Cinoche.com 

• Sexual transitioning is a tricky subject to tackle… Seguela and his writers successfully pull it off…  this amusing contemporary comedy that treads gently through classic Chabrol country… Tristan Séguéla offers up a mature, entertaining and insightful comedy drama where the watchwords are understanding, kindness and tolerance, ensuring a happy – almost moving – ending.
  Meredith Taylor –  Filmuforia 

• A lively comedy carried by the Luchini-Frot duo for the first time on the screen. Without falling into caricature, Tristan Séguéla plays thoroughly on the comic spring of the bourgeois couple in the midst of a gender revolution, while offering beautiful sequences of emotion.
  Le Journal du dimanche 

• Un Homme heureux approaches the gender transition with a sixty-something woman and resolutely from the side of comedy.
  Corinne Renou-Nativel – La Croix 

Transidentity in a comedic angle

L’Alpe-d’Huez Film Festival