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Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is a beautiful movie, which picks up the story some decades after "happily ever after." People often talk about art being "universal." This is usually a cop out. All art is rooted in a culture, and books and movies make little sense if we don't come to them with the required knowledge. But if ever there was a universal movie, it was this one. Illness, death and love are part of everyone's experience. They are all fundamental parts of bodily experience, and transcend culture in a way that health, life and romance do not.The Taj Mahal looms over the Yamuna River in remembrance of Shah Jahan's lost love. "Amour" is a monument no less grand. The heart of the film is the relationship between Anne and Georges, who are played with consummate skill by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. I found Riva's performance particularly heartbreaking. It chimed with my own memories of similar situations, and her emotional course through the movie is as complex as it is heartbreaking.Haneke has a muted style. The camera is still, the soundtrack is bare, we continually see the same rooms and the same furniture from the same angles. This throws all the emphasis on the warm emotions of the principal characters. Their faces burn through the screen. Their words are crystal clear against a silent backdrop. The little details of Anne and Georges's home become familiar and take on lives of their own. The piano, the books, the kitchen table, the sink, the green chairs in the salon, the white cornices, the parquet floors. I don't think I've ever seen a movie before where I remember such things.It is a slow movie, but if you're not a fan of international art-house releases, this might be the one film you could handle. It is so warm and so real, that I think it really does have a universal appeal.***Having slept on it, I've changed my mind. I still think this is a beautiful movie. And I still think it is true to say that bodily illness is an almost uniquely universal theme.But it is not right to say that this movie is culturally universal. It is filled with contemporary, western themes to do with illness and dying. Should Anne be put into a home? Should she receive treatment? Is euthanasia justified? What responsibility do parents have for their children? What is the value of human life? How important is a person's dignity? How should we talk to and about the terminally ill? Perhaps many cultures pose similar questions, but surely none pose all of them in quite the way this movie does. This is one reason I found the movie so touching. It asked me questions I have asked myself about my own family members. Someone who had asked themselves different questions might not like the movie.Nor would people who find such questions distressing—as some of the other reviews show.My initial response to the movie reminds me of a scene in "The White Masai." Nina Hoss's character has just arrived with her husband, Jack Ido, in her new home among the Masai. She sees an old woman who has been abandoned to die, and tries to save her life. Neither the old woman nor anyone else sides with her. Euthanasia is not a question everywhere, but my strong response to "Amour" made me feel for a moment that it was. "I want more life," cries Roy Batty in the most famous scene of "Blade Runner." "Amour" brings this cry into question, in a beautiful, subtle, and undeniably Western way.

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.

The fact that Amour is an instant classic in the art-house world is as indisputable as the emotions presented by the protagonists of the film are bewildering. This picture is Haneke's minimalistic yet mightily expressive homage to love as we know it, showing the feeling's overpowering force and heartfelt, altruistic nature. While remaining a thoroughly unsentimental and provocative picture, Amour delivers a most-demanding portrayal of an elderly couple's last days together. Those cultivated, sophisticated characters need to evaluate their long-lasting marriage and come to terms with their own emotions, and, simultaneously, discover the true meaning of love in itself. Decisions need to be made, and some of them might be shocking to say the least. one of the best of the cinema the french title , and the drama in this movie is so romantic and Lovely , i have wrote before on this in my blog so i took some of the sayings and wrote them in french here http://sms1amour.blogspot.com message d'amour hope this will give another idea about quotes and sms there .