Nearly three years since "Amour" nabbed a surprising five Oscar nominations—Best Picture, Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Actress Emmaneulle Riva, and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Michael Haneke—details are emerging about the auteur's long-awaited follow-up, including a title: "Happy End." Haneke, along with "Beasts of the Southern Wild" director Benh Zeitlin, beat out stiff competition that year to land in the final five, including Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained"), Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables"), and Ben Affleck (eventual Best Picture winner "Argo"). Though "Amour" only won the foreign-language prize—Best Director went to Ang Lee, for "Life of Pi"—its success with the Academy might have led one to expect that Haneke's next project would come down the pike rather quickly. It was not to be, as The Playlist reported in June that...
- 12/30/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
We're clocking on four years since Michael Haneke tore our hearts out with "Amour," and aside from helming an opera performance for television broadcast, all has been quiet in terms of a new film from the director. Over the summer, we learned the director had dropped his long-developing "Flashmob" and was working on a new France-set movie. Details at that time were scarce, but cinephiles have a holiday-season treat as much more has been revealed about what Haneke is brewing next. Read More: Age & Illness Test Love In Michael Haneke's 'Amour' French media reports that Haneke is reteaming with Isabelle Huppert ("Amour," "Time Of The Wolf," "The Piano Teacher") and Jean-Louis Trintignant ("Amour") for "Happy End." Naturally, exact details are being kept under wraps, but production will take place this spring in Calais, and while the story will involve the migrant crisis in Europe, producers...
- 12/30/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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