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By Sarah Ward (538) for Goethe-Institute Australien Magazine (25) on 19 Jul 2017

It's easy to feel as though Haneke is retracing his own footsteps, and he is, but he's doing so with purpose and self-awareness…

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By Matt Roden (6) for Junkee (216) on 30 Jun 2017

Easy to intellectually appreciate, but hard to like…

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By Blake Howard (505) for Graffiti With Punctuation (173) on 26 Jun 2017

Haneke's Happy End is darkly funny, impeccably made and the performers relish being conducted by a master; however it doesn't have as clear…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jun 2017

Haneke has delivered the Haneke film that Haneke-haters see in their heads when they think of a Haneke film: a series of disjointed, narratively…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Jun 2017

It's a film whose themes put it squarely within the continuum of Haneke's filmography, yet it also distinguishes itself from much of it in…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 05 Jun 2017

Happy End is less confrontational than the early work that gained Haneke a reputation as an arch-provocateur…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 May 2017

This repetition of old themes might suggest a filmmaker out of ideas…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 May 2017

Even admitting that films like Cache (Hidden), The White Ribbon and Amour have raised the bar higher and higher, Happy End feels like it’s…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 26 May 2017

It is not a new direction for this film-maker, admittedly, but an existing direction pursued with the same dazzling inspiration as ever…

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By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 May 2017

As an austere and darkly comic family drama, and a scathing commentary about the kind of world our children are living in, Happy End is stunning…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 May 2017

A major issue is that the characterizations don’t reach very deep and in the absence of a robust context or involving narrative, it’s actually…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 26 May 2017

Haneke’s magisterial control of tone, actor and shot is not to be underestimated: there are scenes of quiet, nuanced authority and menace…

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By Ben Croll (93) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 May 2017

The film both demands and rewards our close attention, but Haneke is such a master -- his framing so precise, his form so rigorous -- that…

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By Carlos Boyero (70) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 24 May 2017

Haneke is faithful in Happy End to his eternal speech. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Jorge (Jj) Negrete (92) for Butaca Ancha (324) on 24 May 2017

One of the director's least successful works and perhaps the weakest. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 24 May 2017

It's fascinating to grapple with Happy End, a sly and elusive film that features some of the most innovative, and unsettling, depictions of…

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By Àngel Quintana (30) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 24 May 2017

A film in which the vanity of the director is imposed as a gesture of reprobation and contempt to the viewer's gaze. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Carlos F. Heredero (36) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 24 May 2017

Another realization where the author's gaze on his characters is steeped in cruelty without the least empathy. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Jj Negrete (63) for Butaca Ancha (324) on 24 May 2017

One of the director's least successful works and perhaps the weakest. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Diego Batlle (225) for Otroscines.com (322) on 24 May 2017

Happy End is the most bitter and hopeless film of all his filmography, which is already a lot to say. [Full review in Spanish]…

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