Amour (2012)
Country: FR/GER/ÖST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis:
An elderly couple in Paris enjoy their evening out to see a former protégé play in public, but soon afterwards the wife suffers a stroke and their roles become those of nurse and patient, till death do them part.
Review:
An uncompromising kind of endgame Haneke typically sets himself here, and all within the walls of a single apartment, though one of those wonderfully well proportioned Parisian apartments. It's a tour de force with these fine actors, and the director's controlling hand, though it will test individual attitudes to love and death. Time is slowed even more than in the past with the director, as he observes Sisyphean human endeavours minutely, but epiphanies there are few.
Country: FR/GER/ÖST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis:
An elderly couple in Paris enjoy their evening out to see a former protégé play in public, but soon afterwards the wife suffers a stroke and their roles become those of nurse and patient, till death do them part.
Review:
An uncompromising kind of endgame Haneke typically sets himself here, and all within the walls of a single apartment, though one of those wonderfully well proportioned Parisian apartments. It's a tour de force with these fine actors, and the director's controlling hand, though it will test individual attitudes to love and death. Time is slowed even more than in the past with the director, as he observes Sisyphean human endeavours minutely, but epiphanies there are few.
Country: FR/GER/ÖST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis:
An elderly couple in Paris enjoy their evening out to see a former protégé play in public, but soon afterwards the wife suffers a stroke and their roles become those of nurse and patient, till death do them part.
Review:
An uncompromising kind of endgame Haneke typically sets himself here, and all within the walls of a single apartment, though one of those wonderfully well proportioned Parisian apartments. It's a tour de force with these fine actors, and the director's controlling hand, though it will test individual attitudes to love and death. Time is slowed even more than in the past with the director, as he observes Sisyphean human endeavours minutely, but epiphanies there are few.