AMOUR

French 2012

Married octogenarians, former piano teachers, share the remaining year of marriage enduring the wife's failed operations which result in permanent paralysis. The methodical, watch the paint dying pace of their life might be difficult for some viewers, but if you can allow for it, you will be rewarded with a remarkably rich view of love and experience a truly great movie.

The quote from the director below may help explain the unhurried pace of the film.

"My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus." - M. Haneke

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert; Directed by Michael Haneke