Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
Happiness
Scored from 42 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
François, a young carpenter in a Paris suburb, lives in easy contentment with his wife Thérèse, a dressmaker, their two small children and a routine of Sunday picnics in the woods. Working in a nearby town he meets Émilie, a postal clerk who has just moved there, and begins an affair he experiences not as a betrayal but as an extra portion of joy added to the one he already has. Certain that happiness only accumulates, he decides that Thérèse should be told. Agnès Varda's French drama stages the arithmetic in saturated sunlit colour and Mozart, with a real family playing the husband, wife and children.
Happiness is a 1965 drama and romance film. It plays in French. Its country of origin is listed as France. It runs 1h 20m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 42 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 43 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Happiness lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 42.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
