Happy End

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.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

as Anne Laurent

Jean-Louis Trintignant

as Georges Laurent

Mathieu Kassovitz

as Thomas Laurent

Fantine Harduin

as Éve Laurent

Franz Rogowski

as Pierre Laurent

Laura Verlinden

as Anaïs Laurent

Toby Jones

as Lawrence Bradshaw

Aurélia Petit

as Nathalie

Hille Perl

as The Gambist

Hassam Ghancy

as Rachid

Reviews

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The now wheelchair-bound industrialist “Georges” (Jean-Louis Tritignant) rather reluctantly approaches his eighty-fifth birthday having contemplated suicide and having largely lost interest in the lives of his daughter “Anne” (Isabelle Huppert) who has been running his business, and surgeon son “Tho...

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