Happy End

When a precocious 13-year-old French girl (Fantine Harduin) moves in with her estranged surgeon father (Mathieu Kassovitz), his new wife (Laura Verlinden), and her suicidal, dementia-afflicted grandfather (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in Calais after her mother is hospitalized and then subsequently dies while her workaholic, divorced grandmother (Isabelle Huppert) who owns a construction company deals with the neglect of her mentally unstable son (Franz Rogowski) at a building site in this quirky, unusual, well-acted, realistic, 107-minute film , tensions increase in this highly dysfunctional family as long-buried secrets are revealed.
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