Hair of the Bear vs Happening

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Happening). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 40m. Happening is the older of the two (2021 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS Happening posterHappening2021
Hair of the BearHappening
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.2/10
Year20262021
Length1h 32m1h 40m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanAudrey Diwan
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceAnna Mouglalis, Anamaria Vartolomei, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrizio Rongione, Pio Marmaï

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

Happening

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

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