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.
Director: Pierre Étaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière, Pierre Étaix
Criterion ChannelWith his wife (Laurence Lignières) having prepared an anniversary luncheon at home, husband (Pierre Étaix) is out in Paris hoping to get her some nice gifts before returning for dejeuner. What he hasn’t quite factored in, though, is that the old cobbled streets of the city centre…
