快乐结局2017

大导演到后期喜欢删繁就简，哈内裤也开始了融入当下，直播竖屏用起来，蔡明亮就更不用说了，越拍越简洁，不要台词，不要运动，就拿着普通机器架着拍，也许就像戈达尔想的那样，再见语言。哈内克没有完全再见，只是看着比较不太在意镜头的方式，冷漠无解的一家，够分裂够丧，如一场事故，西方家庭观念痛苦和东方不太一样，他们是个体和个体间的漠视，东方更多的是曲解，以及互虐。大导演开始致敬自己的作品都是无话可说的表现，前有江湖儿女贾科长，后有快乐结局哈内裤，并不快乐

洛家是一个富裕的上层中产阶级家庭。80多岁的老人乔治·洛朗渐陷入老年痴呆。他和两个已婚的儿女托马和安妮一起，正不自在地分享他在加莱富丽堂皇的庄园。离异而冷漠的安妮，不得不承受因儿子皮埃尔的失职而导致的灾难性工作场所事故的影响。与此同时，托马斯的前妻因一场神秘的中毒而被紧急送进医院，导致他13岁的郁郁寡欢的女儿艾芙与父亲和他的新婚妻子安娜伊思生活在一起。毫无疑问，在这个家庭中，每个人都有不可告人的秘密，而随着洛朗家的命运与持续而不光彩的欲望交织在一起，一种特殊而又令人不安的联盟就会形成。但最终，有些更大的秘密即将揭晓……

影片中人物的行为举止是被导演放大加工过的，但也确实提炼自生活。人们大多都活在自己设计好的皮囊下面，皮囊之下早都千疮百孔了，却还能衣着光鲜地面对外人。这也并不只是欧洲中产阶级的特征，而是现代文明进程下的普遍现象：冷漠与虚伪。欧洲电影人最喜欢聊的问题之一就是冰冷发达城市中的人际关系。如果你对人生迷茫了，你能通过这部电影找到活着的希望。如果你正奋斗在人生前线，你也能靠着这部电影审视自己。就是这么神奇，信不信由你。

From the prodigious Austrian auteur Michael Haneke, prima facie HAPPY END can be construed as a sequel to AMOUR (2012), with both Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert returning as another father-daughter pair, but scale-wise, it is an upgrade, with Haneke’s rapier-like scalpel mirthlessly levering at and dissecting a dysfunctional bourgeois household in Calais under a large milieu. First thing first, extending his attentive exploration related to what constitutes today’s cinematic gaze, Haneke situates his camera on our workaday digital devises, opening with several video clips from a live-recording smartphone (with morbid contents notwithstanding), to the (replay-prompting) footage of a security camera coldly witnessing an abrupt collapse on a construction site, then eyeing erotic exchanges from the screens of a personal email account and a facebook page between two secretive lovers, even to a swaggering Youtube video watched by the 13-year-old Eve Laurent (Harduin, an alumna from Belgium’s Got Talent whose speciality is mentalism), all contributes to his rehashed conception of evil, destruction and lust lurking on the placid surface of a disengaged normalcy. Restraint and remove is Haneke’s methodological thumbprint, in HAPPY END, this approach is well applied in scenes where violence, mortality and incommunicability flares, such as when the wheelchair-bound, dementia-ailed, world-weary paterfamilias Georges Laurent (Trintignant) approaches a cohort of African immigrants on the street, the camera stays stock-still on the other side of the road, we can merely judge by their body language to infer the content of their conversation, and Georges’ attempt ends in vain. Only after his another proposition falls through we might second-guess that George wants to pay them to kill him. Interestingly, correlating the later scene where Georges’ grandson Pierre (Rogowski) disrupts the “whiteness” of his mother Anne’s (Huppert) engagement party by unsolicitedly bringing a group of refugees from Calais Jungle, Haneke’s seemingly token orchestration of ghettoized Africans as a go-to weapon to debunk the middle-class indifference and complacency packs a less impactful punch than one might expect from his audacious streak. This happy-less, mansion-dwelling ménage assembles a multi-national cast: as an outsider, Toby Jones is given nearly nil to act as Anne’s British fiancé, though his own distinctive physiognomy standing side by side with Huppert alone adumbrates the grotesquerie of their pairing; Huppert’s Anne is as per usual a brittle businesswoman type whose superficially wholesome life has its feet of clay within her own bloodline; a hale Trintignant fixates on Georges’ one-track mind with crystal-clear, if sometimes dementia-addled perspicacity and his standoffish detachment is the extrinsic outgrowth of a decades-old carapace that he can no longer empathize with the present world and has no will to footle about anymore, yet the bitter irony (indicated by the film’s title and the trenchant ending) is that his holy grail remains as elusive as ever. Mathieu Kassovitz as Thomas Laurent, Georges’ surgeon son and Eva’s estranged father, comes off as the weakest link here, too lackluster to elicit any emotional investment, and is worse off when in juxtaposition with Harduin’s precocious, simmering acuity, venom descending from a hereditary lineage. Last but not least, there is this fantastic German actor Franz Rogowski, who stunningly presents an incompetent and despondent Pierre as a mind-bending specimen of a poor little rich boy, and Haneke cunningly teases audience with Pierre standing near an open window during a passive-aggressive confrontation with Anne in the middle of the night, hints that he might be a self-destructive head case, which seems to reassure his devotees that the filmmaker is still the flinty hard-liner we are au fait with, perhaps, that is what HAPPY END actually stands for. referential entries: Haneke’s AMOUR (2012, 8.4/10), FUNNY GAMES (1997, 7.0/10).

一个破碎的法国上层家庭，一个想自杀的成功老企业家和一个自杀未遂的小孩，一个有婚外恋的已婚男人，一个家庭主妇，一个溺爱儿子的单亲母亲快要迎来自己下一段婚姻，一个被母爱限制了自由儿子和一群生活在他们的“理想国”中的仆人。每个人都生活在自己的世界里面，每个人都有自己的隐私，那些藏在手机里和电脑里的不为人知的秘密，电影直接用手机屏幕和电脑屏幕代替了摄影机的叙事，渐渐地推进故事的发展。法国文艺电影明星大团圆，全是跟哈内克合作多年的人马特兰蒂老头子，于阿姨，艾米丽男神卡索维茨等上演了一出文艺范儿的家庭闹剧。电影还借老头子的故事延续了哈内克之前的获奖作品《爱》，深情的特兰蒂老头坐在轮椅上渐渐地沉入大海作为《快乐结局》的结局。电影从讲述家庭关系和人物感情的细腻程度上让我想起杨德昌的《一一》，而哈老一贯的实验性手法在本片中依然用得恰到好处，老当益壮的哈老用好的故事，好的电影语言让我们这个时代依然有好的电影存在，只叹息这几年的威尼斯和戛纳电影节都走向了好莱坞化，《寄生虫》和《小丑》这些电影放在哈老头的电影面前简直就是小巫见大巫！🎬🇫🇷