Happy End
Dir: Michael HanekeCast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
110mins 2017 France | Austria | Germany Certificate: 15 French | English
Happy End
Part of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective
A family gathering should be cause for celebration, but the Laurents aren’t any ordinary family, as Michael Haneke’s caustic drama reveals.
For a director known for his unsettling portraits of contemporary society (Hidden, Funny Games, Amour), Michael Haneke’s domestic drama signals a change in direction.
But as we delve deeper into the frictions between parents, siblings and in-laws, and the decisions made in the family company, it becomes clear that Haneke’s mission is to seek out the rot at the heart of middle-class family life.
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