Amour Reviews
Top CriticThis is realism that enlarges our conception of the term.
Now at the end of the year comes a masterpiece, not just the best of the year, but one of the best ever: Michael Haneke's Amour.
The Patriot Ledger
It leaves you spent, depressed and intensely afraid of the future. In some ways that's admirable, but like our fallible bodies, it gets old - fast.
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| Original Score: B-
Las Vegas CityLife
Haneke has created a gift for both audiences and the two legendary actors cast in the lead roles.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Movies With Butter
In a film that's so explicitly cathartic for the filmmaker, there's a whole lotta catharsis withheld for the audience.
3AW
While [director Michael] Haneke's love of long takes invite you to stare into the corrugated faces of Georges and Anne as their worlds change, there is a leaden quality to many stretches of the film that assume a profundity that simply isn't there.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Popcorn Junkie
Powerful piece of cinema that forces us to confront death and something even worse; the prospect of outliving the love of one's life
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| Original Score: 4/5
Rip It Up
This beautifully-handled, deeply devastating work is all about the most human issue of all: we're all headed for the scrap-heap.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flicks.co.nz
Movingly acted and extremely harrowing.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Rarely has this subject matter been depicted so realistically, so honestly. You always know where the story is heading but it's still tough to watch.
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| Original Score: B+
Cinema Autopsy
The scenario is upsetting, but the execution is genuine and pure, making Amour a film of heartbreaking beauty and Haneke's masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Looking Closer
Amour will now rate highly on a list of my favorite horror movies. It's certainly upsetting. But that is its strength.
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| Original Score: A-
At the Movies (Australia)
This is a profound look at love about a couple who have lived with each other for so many years, know each other so well and this terrible thing that is facing them and there's a serenity there which makes it even more moving, I think.
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| Original Score: 5/5
At the Movies (Australia)
It's Haneke's searing honesty and lack of sentimentality, and his talent as a writer-filmmaker that lifts this film to the heights of achievement. I know that the storyline may sound gloomy, the film is not. It is beyond wonderful.
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| Original Score: 5/5
The Age (Australia)
Ultimately, the title of the film demands to be taken as a question: is this truly what love looks like? A little smugly, Haneke refuses to answer.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Herald Sun (Australia)
A multiple award winner at film festivals around the globe, and it is easy to see why. Highly recommended.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Screenwize
Michael Haneke's most intimate and painfully truthful film - an exploration of what love means at the far end of life.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Tampa Bay Times
This is a movie almost too painful to watch at times, yet so masterfully composed and acted - Riva absolutely deserves her Oscar nomination, while Trintignant was robbed - that it's impossible to turn away.
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| Original Score: A
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Georges' irreversible decision may be courageous, but it requires no sacrifice on the part of his creator: for Haneke, it's business as usual.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Trintignant and Riva are unforgettably brilliant as the aging couple we can all identify with.
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| Original Score: B+
