‘Agent of Happiness,’ a Look at Bhutan, Is Cinéma Vérité With a Nod to Fiction’s Conventions
Film depicts efforts to track the country’s Gross National Happiness — an official directive instituted in the latter part of the 1970s as a means by which policy could be shaped.
A documentary by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, “Agent of Happiness,” takes place in the kingdom of Bhutan. If you’re one of the many Westerners who know the country only tangentially, if at all, that was once how the Bhutanese preferred it.
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