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HAPPY END

By Michael HANEKE

FILM FORUM - as DISTR / CONS

Drama - Completed 2017

All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind. A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2017
Competition
Karlovy Vary IFF 2017
Horizons
Toronto - TIFF 2017
Masters
San Sebastian FF 2017
Perlak
AFI FEST 2017
World Cinema
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, AUSTRIA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michael HANEKE
    • Producer(s)
    • Margaret MENEGOZ (LES FILMS DU LOSANGE), Stefan ARNDT (X FILM CREATIVE POOL), Veit HEIDUSCHKA (WEGA FILMPRODUKTIONSGES.M.B.H), Michael KATZ (WEGA FILMPRODUKTIONSGES.M.B.H)
    • Synopsis
    • Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant star in Michael Haneke's semi-sequel to 2012's Amour, about the dysfunctional lives of a bourgeois European family.

      Over a glorious career that has seen him elevated to the pinnacle of international filmmakers, Michael Haneke has demonstrated a cool command of the subjects under his directorial microscope. With Happy End, the follow-up and partial sequel to 2012's Amour — winner of both the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, among many other honours — the master maintains his trademark control while expanding the previous film's scale considerably. Amour was spare in its unblinking concentration on three characters. Happy End, a bleakly comedic flipside by comparison, expands the story to form a kaleidoscopic portrait of both a family and a society in deep chill.

      The ironically titled film follows the antics, meticulously noted, of Amour's high-strung Laurent clan. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) has taken over the family business from her ailing father, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant). The cast broadens to include Anne's fiancé (Toby Jones), her deadbeat son (Franz Rogowski), her brother (Matthieu Kassovitz), who has just been saddled with his 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage (Fantine Harduin), and a pair of Moroccan servants (Nabiha Akkari, Hassam Ghancy).

      The dark side of domestic dynamics continues to haunt Haneke's work in Happy End. As Anne, prim and proper, tries to keep everything together, she finds she has a worthy foe in the form of her young niece. As things start to spin into chaos, Haneke guides us through another masterpiece of familial dysfunction.
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