Happy End

Those people can breathe easy, at least for a moment, because one only has to go into his latest effort, “Happy End,” for a couple of minutes to realize that the old Haneke is back with a vengeance.

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Following the hospitalisation of her mother from an overdose, 12-year-old Eve (Fantine Harduin) goes to live with her father’s (Mathieu Kassovitz) twisted family in Calais. Did we mention Eve might have poisoned her mother? Welcome to Haneke country.

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Haneke depicts the bourgeoisie as a class afflicted by terminal cancer, not only gestating its own demise but also infecting everything it comes in contact with. Its eventual death is presumably the happy end referred to in the film’s title.

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Michael Haneke's new drama focuses its disapproval on a wealthy French family led by iron matriarch Isabelle Huppert.

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If there weren’t already a film called 'Loveless' in competition at Cannes, that would have made an apt title for Michael Haneke's cynical 'Amour' follow-up.

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Just in time for Christmas, Happy End offers the grueling greatest hits of Michael Haneke.

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Of course, Michael Haneke’s “Happy End” doesn’t live up to its name.

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Even with a Sia number, Michael Haneke's latest outrage feels shockingly familiar.

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It reveals itself as vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked-out payoff.

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Relishing the latest from Lanthimos, Coppola, and Baumbach.

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