Happily Ever After

One winter evening in 1995, Carole leaves her abusive husband and three children behind. Many years later, her daughter returns to family memories, home videos and stories from those closest to her, trying to understand what drove her mother to leave. A deeply personal documentary about family memory, violence and ideas of love that often have little in common with fairy-tale happy endings.

Élodie Beaumont Tarillon, after self-producing two short films, wrote and directed Hunting Period in 2022, which was selected for numerous festivals in France and abroad. Accompanied by Paraíso Production, she went on to direct her second fiction short, Late August, and her first documentary, Happily Ever After, in 2025. She is currently working on two features, a fiction and a documentary.