In all this talk about the awards season, how could we forget that we had a new movie from Michael Haneke on the way? Debuting this spring at the Cannes Film Festival, “Happy End” has been keeping a low profile, but a new trailer is here to remind you that you have yet another prestigious film to look forward to this fall.
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden and Toby Jones, I could break down the plot in a bit more detail, but perhaps it’s best to give the official, very enigmatic synopsis:
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“All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind.”
A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.
All you need to know is that our critic on the Croisette called it “stunning cinema.” We expect no less from Haneke. “Happy End” opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 22nd and expands nationwide in the following weeks.