Independent Cinema for Everyone

Michael Haneke returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family values. Set in Calais, it focuses on the wealthy, neurotic and self-obsessed Laurent family. Anne has taken over the family business, her ailing father is constantly looking for a way out and her doctor brother is getting reacquainted with his teenage daughter after his ex-wife mysteriously overdoses.

Trouble is brewing, however, as a series of backstabbings threaten to tear the family apart, and they fail to notice a new arrival has a secret of her own...Happy End bears all the hallmarks of Haneke's style: pairing pitch-black humour with chillingly precise direction, it's proof that he remains one of cinema's true visionaries.

See this if you enjoyed: Amour, The Piano Teacher, Elle

Dir. Michael Haneke, France/Aus/Germany, 2017, 108 mins, subtitled. Cast. Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones.