Now that weve seenHappy Endwe can say that statement remains truer than ever.
It just probably wont be for this one.
Read on to find out what else critics are saying aboutHappy EndandClaires Camerain the review excerpts below.

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Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian)Often Hanekes cinema is a cousin to conventional horror, conventional thrillers.
Happy End is no exception.
It is almost a genre movie.

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But the genre is that of Hanekes own invention.
One characters face is in fact never shown clearly at all a diabolically apposite equipment.
And this is not to say he even wants it to.

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And though his answer is simple, one must put in the work to get there.
Only some rebellious zoom-ins in the middle of fixed camera long takes are aesthetic speed bumps.

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