--- title: 'Waiting for Happiness (2002)' type: 'film' director: 'Abderrahmane Sissako' released: '2002-01-01' runtime_minutes: 95 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Mauritania' - 'France' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/waiting-for-happiness-2002' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308363/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Waiting for Happiness (2002) 2002 · 95 min · Drama · Mauritania, France Original title: En attendant le bonheur ## Synopsis Waiting for Happiness is a 2002 Mauritanian drama film written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Main characters are a student, who has returned to his home in Nouadhibou, an electrician and his child apprentice, and the local women. The film is characterized by a succession of scenes of the daily life of the characters which are unique to their particular African and Arab cultures, while borrowing from tropes of Tayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to the North. The viewer must interpret the scenes without much help from narrator or plot, while the structure of the film hangs on a series of mundane but visually arresting moments, many of which are repeated in other works in Abderrahmane Sissako's opus, including scenes at a barber shop and a photo booth, also present in his earlier La Vie Sur Terre and later Timbuktu. The film presents typical Mauritanian moments of beauty, struggle, alienation, and humor, which are experienced by groups socially divided from each other, such as Bidhan women drinking tea and gossiping, West African migrants passing through Mauritania to get to Europe. The young protagonist who has returned interacts with all of these groups as an outsider, as he ## Credits - **Director:** [Abderrahmane Sissako](https://cinepixo.com/people/abderrahmane-sissako) - **Screenplay:** [Abderrahmane Sissako](https://cinepixo.com/people/abderrahmane-sissako) - **Original Music Composer:** [Oumou Sangaré](https://cinepixo.com/people/oumou-sangare) - **Editor:** [Nadia Ben Rachid](https://cinepixo.com/people/nadia-ben-rachid) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/waiting-for-happiness-2002 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3625296); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.