HAPPY END

HAPPY END, 2017

Austria, France, Germany |DCP, Color, 107' |French, English

Director: Michael Haneke

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz

The middle-class Laurent family live in Calais in Northern France. When the family’s young granddaughter unexpectedly decides to settle in with them, three generations begin living together, and cause the family’s history filled with dark secrets and crimes as well as bottled up emotions of revenge to surface. The Austrian Michael Haneke’s latest film Happy End, which competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2017,depicts a thick-skinned and dysfunctional family with the master director’s idiosyncratic dark and abrasive style.