François is genuinely happy, yet when he begins an affair with Émilie, a postal worker, he does not feel guilt [1, 13]. Instead, he views happiness as "additive"—an apple orchard that simply gains another tree [9]. When he eventually confesses this "additional happiness" to Thérèse during a picnic, she responds with devastating silence and is later found drowned in a lake
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