Synopsis
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
2012 Directed by Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Wega Film Vienna Les Films du Losange X Filme Creative Pool Eurimages Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg France Télévisions ARD Degeto Filmfonds Wien
Love, Amor, 愛‧慕, Liebe, 아무르, Ljubav, Armastus, Agapi, Ahava, Ai, Amûru, Ljubov, Iubire, Rakkaus, Любовь [Amour], Amour – Liebe, 爱, Любовь, Szerelem, Aşk- Amour, Láska, Miłość, Αγάπη, 愛、アムール, אהבה, Любов, Ljubezen, Amor (Amour), Đơn Giản Là Yêu, 愛, Mīlestība, სიყვარული, รัก
Jarring, moving, confrontational, emotive and deeply sincere. Any great piece of art should possess one or more of these qualities and Haneke's film simply possesses them all. And for me personally, I'd like to add soul searing.
I am not that familiar with Haneke's work and the films I have seen by his hand range from brilliant to boring for me. But they all have one thing in common, they are relentless to their audience and their themes. It is therefore intriguing by default when someone like Haneke decides to explore love.
This is a story that excels in its simplicity. What happens when life long lovers face the inevitable, death? How do they cope? In many a writer's hand,…
Devastating and honestly hard to watch. I’m literally horrified of becoming an old person
Georges Laurent does not shed a tear. Age is the greatest sculptor of all. When young, we are afraid, but we pretend not, of what punches life might throw at us. We are afraid of the future, we are afraid of Death, not of our own but of our beloved ones. Age, apart from wilting the physicality and deteriorating the health, infuses great determination and gives humans the solidity to face the pains of life and death unlike any other. Age cleanses us of rashness and enlightens our life with equanimity. Age makes us lose our physical beauty, only to give rise to the truest form of soulful love. Aging is always seen as a one of the greatest enigmas…
When I was seventeen, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Suddenly, this indomitable figure in my life was becoming increasingly infantilized and dependent. I would sometimes have to drive around our neighborhood and find him: we could take away his car keys, but we couldn’t keep him trapped in our house. Most of the time he seemed blissfully unaware of his circumstances, but at other times I could see in his eyes that he knew he was losing control.
My father’s whole life had revolved around art. He was always eccentric, but now things were at a whole new level. He would start a sentence in 1993 and end it in 1953. If I said “new school,” he would randomly…
michael haneke just loves torturing us with his masterpieces doesn't he i am literally broken at this point
Violence linked to failures in human communication.
The story dominates the film, subdues the composure, supposedly in favor of explaining rather than judging. The violence is not graphic; it’s unhesitatingly scattered in a dramaturgical space that communicates the loneliness in which the characters find themselves in front of society and the harrowing nostalgia that remains of a long life on the verge of extinction, whose memories are attested by an old photo album or by the strained walls of the place where they live. The home thus becomes an island that takes them away from the rest.
Amour is one of those unforgettable films that reminds us that for all the passage through life is short, the…
A wise man once told me that love is not about the bedroom. It's about the emergency room, and who will be there for you when there's no one else left.
This movie is called "Amour", the French word for "love." The question that title asks is: what is love at the very end? The possible answers haunt me.
clinically universal depiction of inevitable existential terror. as you lie next to your loved one this may as well be the future.
Perhaps the most accessible film in Haneke's repertoire but no less devastating! In fact it was too painfully real! The film makes one pause briefly to contemplate their own mortality!
The actors gave incredibly strong performances! To their credit I felt as if I was a "fly on the wall" spying like a peeping tom on a real life aging couple!
While I can't call this entertaining I can say it was extraordinarily realistic and impeccably done!
One of the most uncomfortable and beautiful movies I've ever seen.
I really felt beside the couple all the time, to see Anne's anguish and pain was heavy and unnerving and to know that many of us will go through it is to be desperate and afraid of what's to come.
After all, this is one of the lessons that are embedded within this work.
Love, have fun, live, do, be and exist, all as soon as possible. There will come a time when we will no longer have these options. There will be a time when our body will no longer meet our expectations and we will have to leave the world because our time has come.
The narrative…