The Sweet Taste of Success

A transformative, emotionally charged documentary that confronts the most urgent questions of the 21st century—happiness, social connection, daily life, death, and aging—while probing a multifaceted, nuanced notion of success that resists simple definitions. The film has the potential to change your life and reshape your understanding of what true success means. An intimate meditation on achievement, it centers on María Teresa Paniagua, a joyful and singular octogenarian Zarzuela singer. The documentary offers surprising insights from conversations with notable figures across the realms of art, science, and intellectual thought, including actress Rossy de Palma, philosophers Fernando Savater and Javier Sádaba, tenor Plácido Domingo, monk Matthieu Ricard, psychiatrist Martin Seligman, Harvard professor Nancy Etcoff, and TED Talk speaker and writer Victor Küppers, among others. This documentary is a balm for the soul.