Desc: De toewijding van Matthieu Ricard: Directed by George Schouten, Babeth M. VanLoo. With Matthieu Ricard. This film explores the many aspects of Matthieu Ricard's life. The 'happiest man alive' as Time magazine has called him. Ricard left a promising career in cellular genetics in France to devote himself to study Buddhism in the Himalayas forty years ago. Since then he has lived with the greatest living teachers of that tradition.