Happy End (2017)

6.6R107 minDirector: Michael Haneke

2017 film

Happy End is a 2017 drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and starring Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant, who had also played daughter and father in Haneke's 2012 film Amour.

The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Released in the United States on 22 December 2017 by Sony Pictures Classics, it was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Huppert and Trintignant were nominated for European Film Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively. As of 2026, it is Haneke's most recent film.

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What is Happy End about?
Happy End (2017) — Gradually succumbing to dementia, George Laurent, the octogenarian patriarch of the Laurents, an affluent upper-bourgeois family, is uncomfortably sharing his palatial manor in Calais, the heart of the infamous migrant jungle, with his twice-married son, Thomas, and Anne, his wor
Is Happy End based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Happy End scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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