W ith happy end, michael haneke takes circuitous routes to arrive at rather simplistic observationsnamely, that modern technology is a plague and that the rich are soulsick and insulated from realworld troubles. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own. This film reminds of his previous film cache in the sense of the french setting and the overall familiar feel of the film. There is a sense of dread in this film, which i like. For a filmmaker whose entire filmmaking career has been defined by the distinct visions contained within each subsequent film, happy end is a bit of a rarity for haneke. To some, it is inevitable that michael hanekes latest film happy end will be a disappointment. Austrian director michael haneke brings his new film, happy end, to the 2017 cannes film festival with a poster of a blue ocean, a frenchlanguage clip featuring glum dinner guests, and a. His latest, happy end dont believe that title for a. Its another moment in happy end that registers like a track on a. Dec 21, 2017 w ith happy end, michael haneke takes circuitous routes to arrive at rather simplistic observationsnamely, that modern technology is a plague and that the rich are soulsick and insulated from realworld troubles. Now playing coming soon to a theatre near you theater listings all around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind.
Dec 03, 2017 m ichael hanekes new film gleams with cold gallows humour. Theres much in the directors latest that recalls his previous work, but. Its another moment in happy end that registers like a track on a greatest hits album as opposed to a fresh discovery. It includes a social criticism and simultaneously a look at the dark side of human nature. God bless whoever introduced michael haneke to snapchat. The independent critic hanekes happy end opens in indy. A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois european family. In happy end, the notoriously misanthropic director returns to the familiar territory of mediaobsessed teens, this time a smartphone. Incorporating more contemporary modes of social media.
Dec 20, 2017 of course, michael hanekes happy end doesnt live up to its name by april wolfe. Theres blunt, rasping comedy to be found in its thematic grimness happy end. Of course, to see people like huppert, kassovitz and trintignant who once again has come out of retirement to work with haneke delivering great performances is hardly newsthey are among the great french actors, after all. Nominated for the palme d or at the 2017 cannes film festival, happy end bears all the hallmarks of haneke s uniquely stark and unsympathetic style. For a filmmaker whose entire filmmaking career has been defined by the distinct visions contained within each subsequent film, happy end is a bit of a rarity for haneke its familiar. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world cinema, haneke wrote and directed films in several. Of course, michael hanekes happy end doesnt live up to. A true master of his craft, michael haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. Synopsis all around the world and us in the middle. Haneke trains his incisive gaze on many interesting issues throughout happy endpsychopathy, greed, social media, suicide, depression, euthanasia, immigration, class conflict, corporate liabilitybut what he ultimately stirs up is a lot more tired, a lot less insightful, and far more meh than anything hes ever produced before. It is not a new direction for this film maker, admittedly, but an existing.
It hardly needs saying that the adjective in the title is about as accurate as the one in hanekes funny games. Yet this development doesnt register as truly provocative, since haneke has already explored the longing for death more disturbingly in bennys video and more poignantly in amour. We know from his previous films that michael haneke is not concerned about breaking taboos. Happy end, the latest film from austrian director michael haneke is, in many ways, exactly what weve come to expect from the 75yearold auteur who has made a career out of upsetting and. Michael haneke introduces a sociopathic child into a family fraught with secrets. Happy end es una pelicula dirigida por michael haneke con isabelle huppert, jeanlouis trintignant, mathieu kassovitz, fantine harduin, ano. Nov 30, 2017 michael hanekes happy end features the greatest performance by a hamster ever depicted on screen. The official trailer for michael hanekes happy end, a dark satirical drama about bourgeois family values amid the european refugee crisis. Michael hanekes most recent film, happy end, opens with a cell phone recording of a woman in the bathroom getting ready for bed. In the case of happy end you get trapped as well by the fact that michael haneke has made some good films in the past but this one is slow, heavy, boring and missed the. Dec 22, 2017 one thing that happy end does have in common with its predecessors is the high level of quality performances. The filming is very basic and the music not to remember.
Happy end can be considered a pretentious, somber, provocative and certainly ambitious film. When michael haneke makes a film titled happy end, theres. Happy end is a 2017 drama film written and directed by michael haneke. Nominated for the palme dor at the 2017 cannes film festival, happy end bears all the hallmarks of hanekes uniquely stark and. It stars isabelle huppert and jeanlouis trintignant, who had also played daughter and father in hanekes 2012 film amour. M ichael haneke s new film gleams with cold gallows humour. Toby jones, from left, isabelle huppert, jeanlouis trintignant, fantine harduin, mathieu kassovitz and laura verlinden in the film happy. It stars isabelle huppert and jeanlouis trintignant, who had also played daughter. Of course, with a haneke movie, we are waiting a final flourish of violence or. The film demonstrated a willingness by haneke to tell his story in a direct and heartfelt manner without any of the selfreflexive tricks or distancing. Haneke can be challenging for some, but i thought this was on the mark and kept me engaged from beginning to end. Now playing coming soon to a theatre near you theater listings. She is shot from behind at a shadowy distance, the illuminated doorway a small rectangle in an otherwise dark frame. One thing that happy end does have in common with its predecessors is the high level of quality performances.
Jan 04, 2018 music, film, tv and political news coverage. A drama about a welloff french family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern france, oblivious to the human misery unfolding in migrant camps around the port town of calais, a few miles from their. In the case of happy end you get trapped as well by the fact that michael haneke has made some good films in the past but this one is slow, heavy, boring and missed the point of the refugees crisis which remains in the backdrop. May 22, 2017 michael haneke is back to many of his old tricks in happy end, which enfolds the child psychopathy of bennys video, the bourgeois nightmare of hidden, the euthanasia theme of amour, and the racial discomfort of code unknown into a curious, disconcerting and sometimes insidiously effective greatest hits tableau, announces the telegraphs tim robey. Thus, the automatic irony with which to approach the septuagenarian austrian auteurs latest slice of austere miserabilism, happy end, is obvious before the opening credits even roll. Haneke trains his incisive gaze on many interesting issues throughout happy end psychopathy, greed, social media, suicide, depression, euthanasia, immigration, class conflict, corporate liabilitybut what he ultimately stirs up is a lot more tired, a lot less insightful, and far more meh than anything hes ever produced before. Happy families are all the same in a michael haneke film because none of them are ever actually happy. It has an uncommonly strong ensemble cast including toby. Happy end is a welcome departure for michael haneke. If you see this film as anything other than a great comedy, youre doing it wrong. Per haneke s obsession with onscreen screens, happy end opens with a 12 year old girls phone video of her killing the pet hamster with her mothers antidepressants, then theres cctv footage of.
With satire, sorrow and secrecy bathing in dark corners and also in broad daylight, dont worry, be happy never felt so difficult. Nach dem erfolg seines vorangegangenen films liebe hatte haneke ursprunglich einen film uber eine ubergewichtige frau in amerika drehen wollen. Michael hanekes new film finds dark wit in assisted suicide, overdoses and the refugee crisis. Michael haneke makes snapchat scary in happy end vulture. May 21, 2017 happy families are all the same in a michael haneke film because none of them are ever actually happy. Happy end is the latest from michael haneke, an uncompromising filmmaker whose work is sometimes brilliant and sometimes hard to watch, and sometimes both, but not this time. A basic and recurring theme in michael hanekes filmography and yet and although i know this sounds weird, happy end feels like a movie made by someone else. It stars isabelle huppert and jeanlouis trintignant, who had also played daughter and father in haneke s 2012 film amour. Michael hanekes happy end is a disquieting, blisteringly. Haneke has made films in french, german, and english and has worked in television theatre, and cinema. The austrian director is responsible for some of cinemas cruellest cuts. Austrian writerdirector michael haneke has made many a masterpiece and his latest, happy end, isnt one of them.
In the second scene, disturbed 12yearold eve harduin is experimenting on the family pet by. The film drags when haneke pulls focus to the other, duller characters, perhaps inevitably, as it. Hanekes films from the past two decades, happy end is set in france and features a mostly frenchspeaking cast. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Michael haneke is up to his old tricks in happy end, a movie that finds the chilly austrian maestro returning to obsessions that have haunted his earlier work from cultural nihilism to. Oct 27, 2017 happy end e il nuovo straordinario film del regista michael haneke, nei cinema dal 30 novembre. The new michael haneke film, happy end, is set in the calais region of northern france, where the laurents are a clan to be reckoned with. Michael hanekes 12th feature film shouldnt surprise the critic or cinephile familiar with his decadesspanning oeuvre. It is perhaps not topnotch haneke but happy end is an intermittently gripping film about loveless. Happy end is an art film in the classic sense ambitious. Haneke uses this approach more and more as the film draws to a conclusion, creating an evermounting sense of.
Theres blunt, rasping comedy to be found in its thematic grimness happy end might also be titled death wish, though the austrian. Happy end is a satirical nightmare of hautebourgeois european prosperity. Michael haneke is no stranger to unlikable characters trapped by their despair, but happy end may be his most extreme vision to date. Happy end jumps forward in time casually, letting the audience fill in the blanks. Happy end e il nuovo straordinario film del regista michael haneke, nei cinema dal 30 novembre. Hes concocted a plot just busy enough to distract from these worn cynicisms and a set of characters too enigmatic to dismiss as mere chess pieces off the bat, but by the end. Happy end is a film directed by michael haneke with isabelle huppert, jeanlouis trintignant, mathieu kassovitz, fantine harduin, year. May 21, 2017 michael haneke is no stranger to unlikable characters trapped by their despair, but happy end may be his most extreme vision to date. Nominated for the palme dor at the 2017 cannes film festival, happy end bears all the hallmarks of hanekes uniquely stark and unsympathetic style. Haneke, after making his first film that manages to break into the academy awards conversation in a serious way, then goes on to direct his most alienating and confrontational film. Happy end is far from hanekes best work, yet it still succeeds in forcing audiences.
Of course, michael hanekes happy end doesnt live up to its name by april wolfe. Michael haneke is back to many of his old tricks in happy end, which enfolds the child psychopathy of bennys video, the bourgeois nightmare of hidden, the euthanasia theme of amour, and the racial discomfort of code unknown into a curious, disconcerting and sometimes insidiously effective greatest hits tableau, announces the telegraphs tim robey. May 21, 2017 michael haneke is up to his old tricks in happy end, a movie that finds the chilly austrian maestro returning to obsessions that have haunted his earlier work from cultural nihilism to. As an austere and darkly comic family drama, and a scathing commentary about the kind of world our children are living in, happy end is stunning. It was selected to compete for the palme dor in the main competition section at the 2017 cannes film festival. Michael hanekes happy end is tense horror, and the. Haneke s films from the past two decades, happy end is set in france and features a mostly frenchspeaking cast. As disturbing as it is, it also happens to be hanekes funniest movie to date. Per hanekes obsession with onscreen screens, happy end opens with a 12 year old girls phone video of her killing the pet hamster with her mothers antidepressants, then theres cctv footage of. Synopsis all around the world and us in the middle, blind.
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