Amour (2012 film)

Amour is a 2012 film about an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on one side of her body and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. Directed and written by Michael Haneke. Georges Laurent Things will go on, and then one day it will all be over. Anne Laurent You are a monster sometimes. Dialogue Anne: It's beautiful. Georges: What? Anne: Life. So long. Georges: [telling a childhood memory] ... some banal romance or other about a nobleman and a lower middle-class girl who couldn't have each other and who then, out of sheer magnanimity, decide to renounce their love - in fact, I don't quite remember it any more. In any case, afterwards I was thoroughly distraught, and it took me a bit of time to calm down. In the courtyard of the house where grandma lived, there was a young guy at the window who asked me where I'd been. He was a couple of years older than me, a braggart who really impressed me. "To the movies", I said, because I was proud that my grandma had given me the money to go all alone to the cinema. "What did you see?". I started to tell him the story of the movie, and as I did, all the emotion came back. I didn't want to cry in front of the boy, but it was impossible; there I was, crying out loud in the courtyard, and I told him the whole drama to the bitter end. Anne: So? How did he react? Georges: No idea. He probably found it amusing. I don't remember. I don't remember the film either. But I remember the feeling. That I was ashamed of crying, but that telling him the story made all my feelings and tears come back, almost more powerfully than when I was actually watching the film, and that I just couldn't stop. Anne: What would you say if no one came to your funeral? Georges: Nothing, presumably. Anne: There's no point in going on living. That's how it is. I know it can only get worse. Why should I inflict this on us, on you and me? Georges: You're not inflicting anything on me. Anne: You don't have to lie, Georges. Georges: [looks down at the floor contemplatively] Put yourself in my place. Didn't you ever think that it could happen to me, too? Anne: Of course I did. But imagination and reality have little in common. Georges: But things are getting better every day. Anne: I don't want to carry on. You're making such sweet efforts to make everything easier for me. But I don't want to go on. For my own sake, not yours. Georges: I don't believe you. I know you. You think you are a burden to me. But what would you do in my place? Anne: I don't want to rack my brain over this. I'm tired, I want to go to bed. Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant - Georges Laurent Emmanuelle Riva - Anne Laurent Isabelle Huppert - Eva Laurent Alexandre Tharaud - Alexandre Rita Blanco - Concierge Dinara Droukarova - Nurse External links 1602620 Amour 771307454 Amour Amour official site Category:2012 films Category:Drama films Category:Foreign language films Category:2010s French films Category:Films about disability