Double Palme d’or winner Michael Haneke is back at the Cannes festival presenting HAPPY END – a snapshot from the life of a bourgeois family – with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz in competition. WESTERN by German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach, co-produced by coop99 filmproduktion, is part of this year’s Un Certain Regard selection.

It is only in a momentary depiction of three generations of bourgeois existence that Michael Haneke allows us to become aware, in his new film HAPPY END, which certainties are likely to slip away, which values to sink beneath the surface. Even when employing the transience of youthful chat media, the filmmaker succeeds in generating lasting unease about ourselves – and within ourselves.

Oscar winner and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Haneke prepares for another Oscar race: His Cannes competition entry HAPPY END has been selected the Austrian submission for the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.