Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Amour 2012

Amour     Georges and Anne are retired classical-music teachers now in their eighties.  They have a comfortable apartment and are enjoying their free time.  Anne experiences a stroke at breakfast that leaves her partially paralyzed.  She has surgery but it isn’t successful and Georges struggles with the task as her caretaker.  He hires nurses to help him several times a week as Anne continues to decline.  Eva, their daughter comes to visit but she is struggling with her mother’s condition.  Anne doesn’t want to keep living like this and she makes it more difficult for Georges.
     It’s really tough on both sides of this film, the patient and the caretaker.  Anne wants to give up but how can Georges let her?  They both know how this is going to end and there will not be a miracle turnaround.  It’s just the every day process of doing what needs to be done and keep doing it.  It’s easy for Eva to breeze in with solutions since she is not living this day-to-day but they won’t make the end different.  3* (This movie is OK)  

127 min, Drama directed by Michael Haneke with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell, Ramon Agirre, Rita Blanco, Carole Franck,  Dinara Drukarova.

Note:  Blockbuster 4*, imdb 7.8 out of 10, 93% critic 82% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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