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‘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. 

From left to righ, Guna Raj Kuikel, an unidentified man, and Amber Gurung in 'Agent of Happiness.'
From left to righ, Guna Raj Kuikel, an unidentified man, and Amber Gurung in 'Agent of Happiness.' Cinephil

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