Film Review: MAISON DU BONHEUR (Canada/France 2016) ***1/2

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The day-to-day life of a Parisian astrologer, who has been residing in the same Montmartre apartment for over 50 years.

Subjects of documentaries are often famous people, but only a handful have been about ordinary everyday unimportant folk.  MAISON DU BONHEUR (translated in English to House of Happiness), an occasionally brilliant film is one of the latter.

It was not that long ago in 1975 that Belgian director Chantal Akerman stunned audiences and critics around the world with her 3-hour long art house epic on the daily chores of a housewife.   The film was called 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.  Though a fictional film that ended with the female protagonist committing suicide as did the director herself  recently, the film repeatedly showed the…

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