Happy End is a satirical nightmare of haute-bourgeois European prosperity. It is also as gripping as a satanically inspired soap opera, a dynasty of lost souls
Haneke's dry filming style and geometrically balanced framing are, as always, a great pleasure to watch, creating not just an unsettling atmosphere but revealing hidden meanings
Haneke slowly immerses the viewer in this bleak network of concerns, his patient screenplay assembling multiple perspectives to encompass the range of antagonism that seems to pass through the generations like a disease
by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
