Happy ending (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | happy end |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Austria |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Haneke |
| script | Michael Haneke |
| production |
Margaret Ménégoz , Olivier Père , Stefan Arndt , Veit Heiduschka , Michael Katz |
| camera | Christian Berger |
| cut | Monika Willi |
| occupation | |
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Happy End is a French - German - Austrian coproduction from 2017 . The film , directed by Michael Haneke , premiered on May 22, 2017 as part of the 70th Cannes International Film Festival , where the film was invited to the Palme d' Or competition . In Germany, the premiere took place at the Munich Film Festival on June 25, 2017. The cinema release took place in Austria on October 6, 2017 and in Germany on October 12, 2017. The first broadcast on Arte took place on May 20, 2020.
action
The film chronologically shows the fortunes of the upper-class French Laurent family over a period of several months, with a number of different storylines interwoven.
- Georges Laurent is the aged head of the family who suffers from the onset of dementia. Former head of the family construction company, he withdrew from it years ago to take care of his sick wife, whose years of suffering he ended by suffocating her. He is now suicidal himself and repeatedly makes unsuccessful attempts at suicide. He lives with the rest of the family on the family estate in Calais , where the North African-born Rachid and Jamila are employed as domestic staff .
- His daughter Anne Laurent runs the construction company, which is in trouble after a serious construction site accident in which a worker was killed. She is the dominant mother of her only son Pierre , who, additionally inhibited by a speech impediment, disappoints his mother's expectations of a future company boss. When Pierre visits the family of the slain worker, he is beaten up by his son, which Anne uses to force an out-of-court settlement on the bereaved. She sold the company to a consortium represented by the British businessman Lawrence Bradshaw , her lover, to whom she soon became engaged. Pierre rebels ever more strongly against his mother and the morality of his family, moves out of the family villa and, as a highlight, brings a group of African refugees from the Calais jungle to his mother's engagement party .
- Georges' son Thomas Laurent left the company at an early age and moved to the south of France as a doctor. He left his first wife, with whom he had daughter Eve , after a few years and moved back home. There he now has a baby with his current wife Anaïs , but starts a new relationship with a musician. Thomas' first wife has become depressed over the years. The 13-year-old Eve who lives with her, who doesn't like her self-centered mother, is responsible for dying of a drug overdose, which is generally regarded as suicide. Thomas now brings Eve to his family in Calais, with whom Eve strangers. Eve quickly discovers her father's new double life. After her own suicide attempt, she gains a certain trust in her previously unknown grandpa, Georges.
The film ends with Georges, sitting in a wheelchair, letting Eve push him over a ferry ramp to the sea on the sidelines of the engagement party. Eve films with his cell phone how he releases the brake and rolls into the water. Before he reaches the deeper water, his family rushes to help.
synchronization
The German synchronization took TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH . Heike Kospach wrote the dialogue book, who also directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Laurent | Isabelle Huppert | Christin Marquitan |
Production and Background
After the success of his previous film Love , Haneke originally wanted to make a film about an overweight woman in America. The shooting in the USA would have been too expensive and he could not find a suitable actress there, in France or Germany. At the happy end , Haneke excited the renewed collaboration with love actor Jean-Louis Trintignant . In an interview conducted in September 2016, he briefly provided information about the general plot: “It [the film] is set in Calais, in a middle-class milieu, and the fate of the people is affected by migrants and asylum seekers - just as we are all affected . Until the whole thing then escalates. ”A year earlier, in September 2015, Haneke and 3,000 other European filmmakers supported the online petition“ For a Thousand Lives: Be Human. ”, Which criticized the European Union's asylum policy .
The shooting took place in the summer of 2016, and the shooting took place in Calais and London , among others . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the Filmförderungsanstalt , Eurimages and CNC , Austrian , Bavarian and West German broadcasting , Canal + , France 3 , Arte , Cine + and ARTE France Cinema were involved. The film was produced by Les Films du Losange , co-producers were X Films and Wega Film . Guillaume Sciama was responsible for the sound, Catherine Leterrier for the costume design and Olivier Radot for the production design.
For Isabelle Huppert this was the fourth collaboration with director Michael Haneke after Die Klavierspielerin (2001), Wolfzeit (2003) and Liebe (2012) . In an interview given in August 2016 shortly after filming was finished, she called Happy End an ensemble film and compared Haneke's latest directorial work with his film Code: unbekannt (2000). Happy End contains a multitude of characters, says Huppert. “He [Haneke] calls it a still image. It's a portrait of a family and everything in it. It's a very quick look at a family. There is no such thing as psychology. It's very factual. Simply the facts. "
The German viol player Hille Perl can be seen in an (important) supporting role.
The film was released on DVD in 2019 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .
Awards and nominations
With Happy End , Haneke competed for the seventh time in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or, which he had already received in 2009 for The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story and in 2012 for Love . It was the eighth film that he presented in Cannes.
The film was invited to the main competition at the Sydney Film Festival , where it was screened from June 10, 2017. The production was nominated by FAMA as the Austrian candidate for the best foreign language film at the 2018 Academy Awards. At the 2017 European Film Awards ceremony , two actor nominations for Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant followed. As part of the Romy Awards 2018 , the film was awarded in the category Best Picture Design Cinema-Film and nominated in the category Best Producer Cinema .
reception
The courier wrote that the film did not achieve the emotional impact of Amour, but rather left the viewer in a somewhat dispassionate ambiguity. Haneke splintered his family album into small, narrative fragments and then abruptly put them back together. He is referring to his own catalog of works, a kind of Best of Haneke , with allusions and own quotations, which are not taken any further. Stefan Grissemann gave a similar verdict in the news magazine Profil , who described the film as a pastiche of “perfectly hung Haneke subjects”: “Amorality in dealing with entertainment electronics and communication technology ('Benny's Video', 'Cache'), death longing ('The seventh continent' ), Sadomasochism ('The Piano Player'), euthanasia ('Amour') and the daily inadequacies of a multiethnic society ('Code inconnu') ”.
Thomas Assheuer at that time , however, came to a completely different conclusion: “His [= Hanekes] characters look like displaced persons, blind and homeless, because their life model is deeply in crisis. After the premiere in Cannes, critics reacted quite irritably to this negativism and accused Haneke of repeating himself. That is right and yet wrong. In fact, a familiar Haneke motif only shows its diagnostic power today, namely the claim that civilization not only civilizes, but punishes its inmates with self-hardening and repression, while everything soft and delicate migrates into art, where it stays and no longer comes back . From this repression arises in Happy End the discomfort in the culture, their colossal indifference towards those who come to Europe from the former colonial areas, if they make it and do not drown in the sea. "
The Kleine Zeitung found that the real discovery Fantine Harduin was when he was 13 years old was Eve Laurent: "When this Eve cries, your heart tightens."
literature
- Michael Haneke: Happy End: The screenplay , with an afterword by Ferdinand von Schirach . Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-552-05859-0
Web links
- Profile at festival-cannes.com (English)
- Happy ending in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Andreas Kilb : No idyll helps against misfortune - FAZ
Individual evidence
- ↑ Details - HAPPY END. In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Release certificate for happy ending . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 170980 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for happy endings . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ The Screenings Guide . Festival de Cannes; accessed on May 12, 2017.
- ↑ Filmfest tip of the day - All's well that ends? Süddeutsche.de, Culture, June 23, 2017; accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Happy End (2017) - Release Info . IMDb; accessed on April 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b happy ending. Austrian Film Institute, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Happy ending . Film Fund Vienna; Retrieved May 19, 2017.
- ↑ Heidi Reutter: A terribly nice family. In: Weser Courier . May 14, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Happy ending. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Until the whole thing escalates . In: Kurier , September 24, 2016, p. 27.
- ^ Benjamin Lee: Michael Haneke to Reunite with Isabelle Huppert for Calais-Set Drama . The Guardian, December 30, 2015, film section.
- ↑ Be Human - Appeal from European Filmmakers . For A 1000 Lives; Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ↑ An acting class with Isabelle Huppert . lwlies.com; Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Sydney Film Festival: Official Competition ( Memento from May 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Austria sends Haneke's “Happy End” to Oscars . orf.at, September 6, 2017; accessed on September 6, 2017.
- ^ Romy Academy: It's about the best of the best . Courier, March 3, 2018; accessed on March 3, 2018.
- ^ The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Courier, April 5, 2018; accessed on April 6, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Haneke in Cannes: No “happy ending” . Courier, 21. May 2017; accessed on May 22, 2017.
- ^ Review: "Happy End" by Michael Haneke . Profile , May 23, 2017; accessed on May 23, 2017.
- ↑ The Abyssal Community . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/2017
- ↑ Just a short applause and a few boos for Michael Haneke . Kleine Zeitung, May 21, 2017; accessed on May 22, 2017.