HAPPINESS, LUCIEN POUËDRAS IN THE EDEN OH HIS CHILDHOOD

by Serge Steyer
Expected 2026 – 52 minutes – France

Happiness is an immersion in the pictorial universe that Lucien Pouëdras has been building since the early 1970s. The stability of his approach and style over the decades allows our gaze to move smoothly from one painting to another, delving ever deeper into his social theater: the wooded countryside surrounding his parents' farm.
Pouëdras depicts his memories of the years 1945-50, when he was between 8 and 13 years old. Throughout his work, he recreates his point of view in scenes where he depicts himself playing with his friends, helping his father, watching the mailman pass by, or attending some Sunday ceremony. Beyond personal experience, it is a picture of an era that emerges.
His first-person narrative takes us back to a bygone world where the relationship with nature, time, the body, and others was radically different and perhaps inspiring for us, caught up in the turmoil of the present.

A Les Films de la pluie, Tébéo, Tébésud, TVR coproduction