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 an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: Michael Haneke
Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!
In French with English Subtitles.
Reviews:
Certified Fresh (93%) on the Rotten Tomaotes!
"With towering performances and an unflinching script from Michael Haneke, Amour represents an honest, heartwrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility."
Tampa Bay Times
Reviewed by: Steve Persall
With Amour, it's the rare feeling of watching a masterpiece unfold.
Louis Post-Dispatch
Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
The story is so masterfully told that one can't help but be enthralled.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Reviewed by: Steven Rea
Amour arrives with plaudits and praise. But this is not hype, it is all deserved. This is a masterpiece.
Miami Herald
Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
This is the sort of small, intimate drama about unpleasant subject matter Hollywood rarely deals with, but Haneke isn't worried about turning off his audience, because death is something everyone has in common. It fascinates us, the way it also scares us.
Boston Globe
Reviewed by: Ty Burr
What happens between two people? Only the chemistry that keeps us from stumbling through the chaos by ourselves. Is that an illusion, too? Amour says it doesn't much matter. There is no dignity in life except love.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Reviewed by: Rick Groen
More arduously, Riva is obliged to act out the physical decline while still registering a full spectrum of emotions. Remarkably, she does it all, even when reduced to communicating with her eyes alone. Hers is, in every sense of the phrase, a nakedly honest performance.
Washington Post
Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
Amour is a must-see film that not everyone must see, at least right now.
Chicago Tribune
Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
Small, sure and stunningly acted, this is a picture of exacting control.
Chicago Sun-Times
Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
An unexpected kind of masterpiece by Haneke, whose films have included the enigmatic "Caché" and the earlier Golden Palm winner "The White Ribbon." We don't expect such unflinching seriousness, such profundity from Haneke
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