Happy End

Happy End (2017)

R 22 Dec 2017 • Drama • 1h 47m
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Gradually succumbing to dementia, George Laurent, the octogenarian patriarch of the Laurents, an affluent upper-bourgeois family, is uncomfortably sharing his palatial manor in Calais, the heart of the infamous migrant jungle, with his twice-married son, Thomas, and Anne, his workaholic daughter who has taken over the family construction business. Divorced and frigid, Anne has to handle the impact of a disastrous workplace accident caused by her disappointing son Pierre's negligence, while at the same time, the urgent hospitalisation of Thomas' ex-wife from a mysterious poisoning, leads his sulky 13-year-old daughter, Ève, to live with her father and his new wife, Anais. Undoubtedly, in this family, everyone has a skeleton in the closet, and as the fates of the Laurents enmesh with insistent and ignoble desires, a peculiar and disturbing alliance will form. But in the end, some secrets are bigger than others.

Michael Haneke
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring

Language: French, English
Awards: 2 wins & 8 nominations
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Metacritic Score: 72
DVD Release Date:
Box Office Total: $301,718

6.6

IMDb (17257 votes)
69%
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