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Amour

Name: Amour
Director: Michael Haneke
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012
Duration: 2 h 1 min
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell

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Drama

2012
Michael Haneke
121 mins
12A

Summary

Drama starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The quiet but comfortable existence of an elderly Parisian couple is rocked to its foundations after one of them suffers a stroke.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Damon Wise

Part adult romance, part middle-class horror movie, Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner is an extraordinary meditation on love and death that succeeds not just on account of its director's calculating intelligence but because of two brilliant performances by its 80-something leads. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play two moderately well-to-do Parisians living a comfortable existence in relative solitude. Their peers are dying, they have a daughter (Isabelle Huppert) who doesn't visit much, and Riva, a former music teacher, sometimes sees her old students. Yet what was once a close, self-sufficient relationship is rocked when Riva suffers a serious stroke. From here, the film becomes a powerful albeit uncomfortably bleak and forensic study of old age, controlled with icy precision by writer/director Haneke. Trintignant, as the shell-shocked husband, gets the meatier part, but it is the fearless Riva, reduced from a smart and elegant woman into a helpless, insensible shell, who really makes this such an unforgettable experience.

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7.9/10