Happy End Happy End

Michael Haneke / France, Germany, Austria / 2017 / 108 min / French

Austrian auteur Michael Haneke returns with this murky farse about the blindness and indifference of the middle class.

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When her mother falls into a coma in unclear circumstances, thirteen-year-old Eve moves in with her father and relatives on the coast of Calais. The Laurent family own a lucrative property development firm and live in a large villa, waited on by servants. But under the glittering façade lie murky secrets that threaten to surface. While Eve disturbs her father's secret online affair, old family patriarch Georges tirelessly searches for his »happy ending«.

Austrian auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon) returns with this murky farse about the blindness and indifference of the middle class.

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