Watch it. But do not watch it alone. And do not watch it expecting to feel good. Watch it to understand that the sunflowers, for all their beauty, grow from the earth that has swallowed the dead.
That is an interesting prompt — just the title and year, no specific reviewer or publication. "Le Bonheur" (1965) is Agnès Varda's deceptively sunny, quietly devastating film about a married carpenter who loves his wife and children... and then falls in love with another woman, seeing no contradiction. le bonheur 1965
Varda famously said, "I wanted to film happiness so directly that it would become unbearable." She succeeded. The film ends with François and Émilie discussing jam. The children call her "Maman." The audience is left screaming internally. Watch it