Amour (2012)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 191
Fresh: 178 | Rotten: 13
With towering performances and an unflinching script from Michael Haneke, Amour represents an honest, heartwrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility.
Average Rating: 9.5/10
Critic Reviews: 51
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 2
With towering performances and an unflinching script from Michael Haneke, Amour represents an honest, heartwrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility.
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Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested. -- (C) Official Site
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Cast
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Jean-Louis Trintigna...
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Emmanuelle Riva
Anne -
Isabelle Huppert
Eva -
Alexandre Tharaud
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William Shimell
Geoff -
Ramón Agirre
Concierge's husband -
Rita Blanco
Concierge -
Carole Franck
Nurse -
Dinara Droukarova
Nurse -
Laurent Capelluto
Police Officer -
Jean-Michel Monroc
Police Officer -
Suzanne Schmidt
Neighbor -
Damien Jouillerot
Paramedic -
Walid Afkir
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All Critics (191) | Top Critics (51) | Fresh (178) | Rotten (13) | DVD (2)
This is realism that enlarges our conception of the term.
Top CriticNow 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.
Trintignant perfectly captures the resolve that eventually borders on obsession, as the woman he loves gradually, maddeningly, disappears before his eyes, and he does whatever he can to prevent it, though he knows it's impossible.
Many viewers will find echoes of their grandparents, parents, or even themselves in these characters.
A movie that is utterly worthy of its all-encompassing title.
The resulting interplay of ruthless restraint and unavoidable passion, plus the film's refusal to shrink from depicting the inevitable horrors of physical deterioration, is devastating.
a profoundly humane and deeply challenging depiction of the emotional and physical ravages of old age
Amour is a lesser work from Michael Haneke that features brilliant performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, but is held back by a simplistic narrative.
Compelling and incredibly heartbreaking...
a stunning work from a man more capable of provocation than actual insight.
Michael Haneke gives us an unflinching look at love in the twilight years, placing a lot on the shoulders of two stars who come through like the veterans they are.
Unnerving in its own way - heartfelt and tender, but with an undercurrent of foreboding.
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.
Haneke has created a gift for both audiences and the two legendary actors cast in the lead roles.
In a film that's so explicitly cathartic for the filmmaker, there's a whole lotta catharsis withheld for the audience.
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.
Powerful piece of cinema that forces us to confront death and something even worse; the prospect of outliving the love of one's life
This beautifully-handled, deeply devastating work is all about the most human issue of all: we're all headed for the scrap-heap.
Movingly acted and extremely harrowing.
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.
The scenario is upsetting, but the execution is genuine and pure, making Amour a film of heartbreaking beauty and Haneke's masterpiece.
Amour will now rate highly on a list of my favorite horror movies. It's certainly upsetting. But that is its strength.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Amour
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- Georges: Things will go on as they have done up until now. They'll go from bad to worse. Things will go on, and then one day it will all be over.
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Foreign Titles
- Liebe (DE)
- Amour (UK)
