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Happy End

Drama

Happy End

Don't believe the title of this Michael Haneke film.

6.2(435) 6/21/2017 1h 50m
Drama

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

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Top Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Anne Laurent

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Georges Laurent

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz

Thomas Laurent

Fantine Harduin

Fantine Harduin

Éve Laurent

Franz Rogowski

Franz Rogowski

Pierre Laurent

Laura Verlinden

Laura Verlinden

Anaïs Laurent

Toby Jones

Toby Jones

Lawrence Bradshaw

Aurélia Petit

Aurélia Petit

Nathalie

Directed by

Michael Haneke

Production

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CinemaSerf

6/10

12/7/2025

The now wheelchair-bound industrialist “Georges” (Jean-Louis Tritignant) rather reluctantly approaches his eighty-fifth birthday having contemplated suicide and having largely lost interest in the lives of his daughter “Anne” (Isabelle Huppert) who has been running his business, and surgeon son “Thomas” (Matthieu Kassovitz) who has recently married “Anaïs” (Laura Verlinden) and had a young son to go with “Eve” (Fantine Harduin), his thirteen year old daughter from a first marriage that ended years earlier, but is now immersing “Eve” in a new kind of tragedy. There used to be an adage that the first generation made the money, the second enriched it and the third squandered it. Well that might be the case here as “Pierre” (Franz Rogowski) appears to have little interest in following in his m

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