Garage Screen’s summer season concludes with a screening of Happy End—the new work by one of today’s biggest directors Michael Haneke.
Haneke’s characters might seem like any other big wealthy bourgeois family from the south of France, but there is one problem: none of them have feelings, even if they argue otherwise. Their story is a reflection on our time (it is no coincidence that the main story develops as a migration crisis escalates in the background) and a meditation on death, presented in a very unappealing way. Biting satire combined with drama promise no actual happy ending, leaving the viewer to hope that it is at least not too traumatic. The films stars Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Toby Jones.
Happy End
Director Michael Haneke. France, Germany, Austria, 2017. 107 min.
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