Austrian director Michael Haneke (Funny Games, 1997; Caché, 2005; The White Ribbon, 2009; Amour, 2012)  returns to many of his classic themes in a stark, unforgiving and gripping satire on bourgeois Europeans and the people who serve them.

Happy End pits bourgeois family life in the French port city of Calais against the European refugee crisis that’s knocking at its door. Secrets, lies, betrayal and deception lurk beneath the polished surfaces of luxurious parties and lucrative businesses. An added preoccupation with social media and surveillance add to the exploration of middle-class malaise, where each family member’s personal crisis becomes part of the tangled web that is the family unit.

Happy End amplifies that which remains unsaid around the dinner table through farce and dark comedy.

Happy End is being screened at St James Cavalier, Valletta, tomorrow at 8.30pm. For tickets, log on to www.kreattiva.org.

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