Happy End (2017)
Country: FR/ÖST/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Toby Jones, Franz Rogowski
Synopsis:
Two events, each potentially fatal, send shock waves through an upper bourgeois family in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Each member appears to place differing value on human life, but one at least develops a social conscience.
Review:
Shades of Code Unknown and Hidden haunt this occasionally tiresome, sort-of-sequel to Amour. Over-extended single-shot takes alternate with unproductive confrontations in shot-reverse shot, and we spend half the movie working out the various relationships. Haneke adds the mobile phone to his catalogue of alienation devices, and the spectre of societal breakdown hovers in the wings. We are left, rightly enough, to ponder the stakes. (The plight of migrants waiting to cross the Channel is glancingly handled, but not a focal point of the narrative as some appraisals have said.)
Country: FR/ÖST/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Toby Jones, Franz Rogowski
Synopsis:
Two events, each potentially fatal, send shock waves through an upper bourgeois family in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Each member appears to place differing value on human life, but one at least develops a social conscience.
Review:
Shades of Code Unknown and Hidden haunt this occasionally tiresome, sort-of-sequel to Amour. Over-extended single-shot takes alternate with unproductive confrontations in shot-reverse shot, and we spend half the movie working out the various relationships. Haneke adds the mobile phone to his catalogue of alienation devices, and the spectre of societal breakdown hovers in the wings. We are left, rightly enough, to ponder the stakes. (The plight of migrants waiting to cross the Channel is glancingly handled, but not a focal point of the narrative as some appraisals have said.)
Country: FR/ÖST/GER
Technical: col 107m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Toby Jones, Franz Rogowski
Synopsis:
Two events, each potentially fatal, send shock waves through an upper bourgeois family in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Each member appears to place differing value on human life, but one at least develops a social conscience.
Review:
Shades of Code Unknown and Hidden haunt this occasionally tiresome, sort-of-sequel to Amour. Over-extended single-shot takes alternate with unproductive confrontations in shot-reverse shot, and we spend half the movie working out the various relationships. Haneke adds the mobile phone to his catalogue of alienation devices, and the spectre of societal breakdown hovers in the wings. We are left, rightly enough, to ponder the stakes. (The plight of migrants waiting to cross the Channel is glancingly handled, but not a focal point of the narrative as some appraisals have said.)