A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 8 nominations
Daniel Auteuil
- Thomas Lauret
- (credit only)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough Jean-Louis Trintignant has been retired since 2003, he only comes back to working on films if Michael Haneke is directing. He considers Haneke the greatest director alive and would act for him in any film (in both big and smalls roles). Michael Haneke also considers Trintignant one of his all time favorite actors (along with Marlon Brando).
- GoofsDuring the beach scene with Thomas and Eve, several passersby in the background are looking at the camera.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021)
- SoundtracksLes Folies d'Espagne
Performed by Hille Perl
Featured review
Cross-generational self-destruction
A French drama; A story about a young girl sent to stay in Calais with her father's dysfunctional bourgeois family with their own problems. This is a stark, unforgiving, and intermittently absorbing satire about an upper middle-class family. Filmed like a puzzle, it is arguably maddening in its slow pace but also sharp in its meaning. Set in coastal Northern France it deals with themes such as family despair and dysfunction, self-destruction, inter-generational revenge and suppression of guilt. The interesting technological aspect to the story is that surveillance and video recording are devices for illustrating sordid desire and longing. As an aside, Michael Haneke has built a reputation for making films which confront his audience to make them feel uncomfortable and there is little let-up with this offering.
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- Feb 9, 2019
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- Also known as
- Final felíz
- Filming locations
- Blériot-Plage, Sangatte, Pas-de-Calais, France(beach scene)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- €12,034,009 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $301,718
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $23,091
- Dec 24, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $2,610,794
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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