Happy End (CinEast Festival)

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Happy End

Tchécoslovaquie 1967 | Oldřich Lipský | vostEN | 73' | digital | Cast : Vladimír Menšík, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Josef Abrhám, Bohuš Záhorský, Stella Zázvorková

► Meilleur film, Festival du Film de Sitges 1969

Great Restorations - 100th anniversary of Oldřich Lipský

Stories about love are all the same: a happy beginning and an unhappy ending. Happy End is an original love story run in reverse and a highly inventive experimental comedy. A half-forgotten gem of Czechoslovak cinema and a treat for cinephiles. Digitally restored version presented to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Czech director Oldřich Lipský.

« Happy End can astonish even the most cinephilic audiences today with its singular bravura, in a way vanishingly few feature films from the Golden Age of European cinema still can… It requires considerable mental gymnastics on the part of viewers to make sense of a narrative running in two temporal directions at once, each with very different implications for the fates of the characters on screen.» (Senses of Cinema)