Happy End (Blu-ray)

Oldřich Lipský's one-of-a-kind Czech black comedy employs an ingenious twist - telling the life story of a philanderer and condemned murderer entirely in reverse: from his 'birth' at the guillotine, to his departure as an infant. Starring the great Vladimír Menšík in a rare leading role, the film is wildly inventive and disarmingly hilarious.

The reverse chronology, with events playing out completely backwards, upends the narrative flow to become a playful, surreal, Dadaist experience unlike anything else in Czech cinema.

Now beautifully restored in 4K, Happy End makes its world premiere on Blu-ray.

“As conceptually and formally radical, and virtuosic, as any helmed by the New Wave’s celebrated, most outré directors... can astonish even the most cinephilic audiences today with its singular bravura” - Senses of Cinema

“A twisted comedy with some truly hilarious moments” - Bonjour Tristesse

• Happy End (Šťastný konec, 1967) presented from a new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive.
• A Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham.
• Cerise Howard on ‘Happy End’: a video essay by the film critic and Program Director of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival
• Booklet featuring a new essay by Jonathan Owen.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.
• World premiere on Blu-ray.
• Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.