The Happiest Girl in the World

2009

Romanian

6.9

62%

bucharest, romania

Comedy

Drama

Radu Jude Director

Luminita Stoianovici as Gabi - make-up artist

Vasile Muraru as Mr. Fratila

Violeta Haret-Popa as Mrs. Fratila

Alexandru Georgescu as The client

Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism