Happy End
2017 · Movie · R · 110 min · ★ 6.2 · 71% critics
A wealthy family in Calais faces a string of personal and professional crises, from strained relationships to unsettling behavior, while their comfortable routine continues. As their private troubles mount, their detachment from the nearby refugee camps highlights a wider moral unease and growing sense of malaise.
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-06-21
- Language
- French
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (433 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy chilly, provocative family dramas that poke at privilege, technology, and guilt with dark humor; Not for you if you want a clear, fast plot or warm characters, and Code Unknown is a useful comparison.
Pros: sharp social satire; darkly comic moments; strong ensemble acting | Cons: slow, episodic pacing; thin story throughline; emotionally distant tone
Themes
- suicide attempt
- refugee
- dementia
- killer child
- euthanasia
- french family
- refugee crisis
- european refugee crisis
- death wish
- wealthy family
- calais
- death by poisoning
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2018 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Actor · 2017 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Actress · 2017 · nominated
Cast & crew
Isabelle Huppert
as Anne Laurent
Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Georges Laurent
Mathieu Kassovitz
as Thomas Laurent
Fantine Harduin
as Éve Laurent
Franz Rogowski
as Pierre Laurent
Laura Verlinden
as Anaïs Laurent
Toby Jones
as Lawrence Bradshaw
Aurélia Petit
as Nathalie
- HP
Hille Perl
as The Gambist
Hassam Ghancy
as Rachid
Directed by Michael Haneke