Happy End

Happy End

Don't believe the title of this Michael Haneke film.

2017110 min6.2 / 10

A bleak, morally indicting portrait of a wealthy family's moral blindness and internal decay, set against the backdrop of a humanitarian crisis they refuse to acknowledge.

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

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