Amour (2012)

Pretty Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Film Review: "Amour" (2012)Exposing a couple's life-time as a string of subjective as unique events, enjoyed or suffered for, which ultimately makes no difference, when auteur-director Michael Haneke, at age 69, captures alongside extraordinary precision-working cinematographer Darius Khondji, known for galvanizing visuals of "Se7en" (1995) starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in favors for director David Fincher, here putting leading cast surrounding Emmanuelle Riva (1927-2017), Jean-Luc Trintignant as her on-screen picture-carrying husband Georges, who then fulfills the ultimate act of so-called love led into death, while the daughter portrayed in professional as supportive manner actress Isabelle Huppert just wonders in an aftermath scene of a calmly-received major Parisian apartment interiors what the force of an undescribable eternal emotion can fulfill in one's to another one's life to sit back stunned of seldom seen on-screen honesty and then again to be recognized as "Best Picture" in World Cinema of 2012 at the Festival de Cannes in its 65th edition and couple of months after still-standing strong with arthouse audiences as "Best Foreign Language Film" at the Oscars in their 85th edition.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Michael Haneke is one of the greatest directors of our time and with this piece of art he proves it once again, Amour is a rare film that manages to be beautifully and articulately crafted and yet still be captivating and intriguing. The flawless performances accompanied by the outstanding directing make this film perfect and truly heartbreaking and beautiful. A Masterclass at the art that he has perfected Michael Haneke, it's truly sad that this great director may not have time to make many more movies. I won't spoil or say to much about the movie it's self because I think it's just best to go into it not knowing to much, just know that it is a beautifully crafted drama that everyone should watch, COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE.

Just want to say, if "Mercy killing" was the idea, then there are better ways to kill someone than making them suffer like that. I just believe that he wasn't tired of seeing her suffer like that, but was tired of doing so much for her. He just needed to end his own suffering. The movie didn't make any sense to me at all. Boring, to say the least. 'Love' is a very big word and sure it has different representations and meanings for different people. But this movie was nowhere close to what we can call "love". Tell me one instant or one scene where you can picture or feel love? Highly disappointed with the movie. Very long too.

a film about love. precise, honest, cruel, more than realistic. two great actors in magnificent roles , exploring the sides and levels and challenges of love as only way to be yourself. a strange end. and delicate art, high science of detail of an unique director who recreates laws and gestures and essence of words in a film who broke limits and use a form of poetry of small things who has the status of profound challenge. a film about the other reflected in yourself. about lost and about hope. about small gestures and about the past. a new version of Philemon and Baucis. out of gods' visit, with the same evolution from the legend.