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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