I'm not the biggest Audrey Tautou fan, because most of the time she plays the same character: hip, single Parisienne just trying to make a living and find love in a big, scary, impersonal world that turns out not to be so big, scary, or impersonal. It's the same in Happenstance. It's kind of like the film version of The Pinball Effect. Except that instead of incidents evolving from the smallest, seemingly insignificant encounters, this basically comes to the conclusion that nothing is pure chance and every tiny action has extremely meaningful consequences. Whether it's the result of a complex set of coincidences in an urban social system or God's design or both is never really spelled out. But horoscopes, tarot cards, and the full moon all factor into the storyline.
I think the film is more concerned with making a cute romantic comedy (and it succeeds) rather than an airtight philosophical statement. Which is fine. It's a good little feel-good French film.
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