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  Review by yanni ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  men's obsession to inflict violence upon women as long its on their own terms is fascinating to me. walters immediate aversion to ericas desires but then going on to r@pe her is just so telling. very poignant

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  Review by Kurdt ★★★★½ 20

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  The manifestation of sexual repression up close. Real close. This is probably my favourite Haneke film as of right now. Just a scary, brutal, unflinching look inside the mind when it's hunting for pleasure above all else.

  Piano teacher Erika, in her forties, still lives with her overbearing mother who we see tear up any of Erika's clothes that she considers too revealing or "gaudy" as she puts it. Erika is constantly focused on her teaching, pushing her students to the limit and never letting an ounce of sympathy or praise slip through her pruned lips. The epitome of uptight strictness. Yet behind the veil, Erika visits back-alley sex shops and engages in voyeuristic fantasies, watching porn while smelling the…

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  Review by evilbjork ★★★★★ 3

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  What gets me about this movie and what's always made this stick with me is the end. The last 5 minutes of this movie after the assault sum up Erika's whole life and show us how sad it's always been for her. She's standing in the middle of the concert hall lobby with bruises on her face and tears in her eyes and yet no one cares. They just put on a fake smile, talk about themself, and wait for her to perform for them like a monkey. Her whole life has been devoted to trying to prove herself and impress others, but no one really cares. It's so sad. Erika is one of the deepest, most fleshed-out characters of any movie ever made and Isabelle Huppert absolutely delivered one of the best performances ever.

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  Review by Jasmine ★★★★½ 3

  the extremest case of kink shaming ever

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★½ 2

  why is michael haneke's signature move making me so uncomfortable that i have to keep checking how much is left in his movies

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  Review by cinephile... 🕯️ ★★★★

  honestly girl i get it

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  Review by Carl Hudson ★★★★★ 3

  Jesus Christ. Holy shit. What the fuck.

  Four minutes into this, I had already decided that I would give this film five stars. It's that good. The rest of it did not disappoint, but fucking hell. Goddamn it.

  Piano music will never be the same.

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  Review by meera ★★★★ 7

  The amount of times I had to pause to recollect myself...

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  Review by megan ★★★★½ 4

  *me watching all the fucked up shit*
  “wow... i love her trench coat”

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  Review by Hari Nef 8

  the next time someone asks me if i’m a feminist i’m just gonna tell them to watch this movie

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  Review by Roberto_ ★★★★★ 1

  @isabellehuppert go to horny jail *bonk*

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  Review by vanessa ★★★★★ 6

  My mum doesn't watch a lot of movies. We live in the middle of nowhere and the only cinema near us only shows bad comedies or action movies, genres we both don't like very much. After I was old enough to go to the theater on my own she didn't watch movies outside of our living room for almost a decade because going to Vienna just to watch a movie seemed like too much of an effort. But a few years ago a local film club started to show new arthouse films once a month and when there was a screening of Amour my mum finally agreed to come with me. She had liked The White Ribbon before but she…