Happy End - Complicit: The Films of Michael Haneke

When her mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young Eve (Fantine Harduin) is sent to live with her estranged father’s relatives in Calais. The Laurent family – wealthy, neurotic and self-obsessed – own a lucrative construction company and live in a sprawling mansion house, waited on by servants. But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own.

"The film both demands and rewards our close attention, but Haneke is such a master -- his framing so precise, his form so rigorous -- that it sucks you in by default." Ben Croll, TheWrap

France/Germany/Austria 2017

French Language with English Subtitles

Happy End is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE