Amour

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Amour

PG-13

2012

2h 7m

Drama

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Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have spent their lives devoted to their careers and to each other. Their relationship faces its greatest challenge when Anne suffers a debilitating stroke. Though Georges himself suffers from the aches and infirmities of old age, he bravely ignores his own discomfort to take care of his wife, and is determined to keep his promise to her that she never go back to the hospital.

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Critics Consensus

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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Amy Taubin

Film Comment Magazine

Aug 27, 2019

What makes Amour not only bearable but cathartic is the beauty of the filmmaking and the delicacy of the performances.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Sep 12, 2018

If only some of the uninhibitedly energetic thought and insight of these actors had found its way into Haneke's movie.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Sep 4, 2018

Haneke has taken the ordinary - getting old; dying; happens to us all; no exceptions - and has transformed it into something so literate, powerful, terrifying, intelligent and extraordinary.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 19, 2022

5/5

This is a story of true love – a love between a husband and wife that only grew stronger through the many years they experienced together. It’s a love that’s taken for granted today and often times treated so flippantly.

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Eve O'Dea

Next Best Picture

May 19, 2022

9/10

In typical Haneke fashion, it leaves us with a deluge of questions about aging, dying, grief, and of course, love, but never dares to give an answer to any of them.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Feb 12, 2022

4/4

Haneke's most resonant film considers that love has more dimension than we might believe, just as life alternates between harmonious times and inevitable conclusions.

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SIMAS C

@simas_eros 3 days ago

A film so simple, so beautiful, so sensitive. It shows how a small event can change everything—how life and love are so fleeting, yet precisely for that reason, so precious and so vital to one’s will to keep living, especially in one’s later years. A brilliantly told story about an elderly couple whose relationship and life are upended by a single, brief moment. Sublime.

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Claudio C

@Claudio666 Aug 13, 2026

Amour (2012) Depressing End of a Journey (12,621 – 29 Apr 2013 / 13 Aug 2026 – Claudio Carvalho) "Amour" is a depressing movie about the end of a journey of a retired couple of about eighty and something years old. "Amour" has impressive performances of Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant and is developed at a very slow pace, almost theatrically, and is sad to see the elder wife losing her dignity due to her physical and mental problems. I recall Emmanuelle Riva very young in movies like "Hiroshima, mon amour" or "Léon Morin, prêtre" and Jean-Louis Trintignant in the unforgettable "Un homme et une femme" or "Et Dieu... créa la femme" and seeing them now seniors make me think how short life is and made me sad. My vote is eight. Title (Brazil): "Amor" ("Love")

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Fernando D

@Maqroll Nov 15, 2025

Love the way they both perform. It is unique and very sensitive.

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Robert C

@pincheway Nov 10, 2025

Difficult to watch at times. It makes old age seem like a nightmare.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Apr 15, 2025

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajudou a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.

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Glen H

@RT70111130 Oct 14, 2024

Haunting more than any horror film. Heart wrenching more than any drama. A true achievement in cinematic mastery from Haneke.

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Synopsis

Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have spent their lives devoted to their careers and to each other. Their relationship faces its greatest challenge when Anne suffers a debilitating stroke. Though Georges himself suffers from the aches and infirmities of old age, he bravely ignores his own discomfort to take care of his wife, and is determined to keep his promise to her that she never go back to the hospital.

Director: Michael Haneke
Producer: Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heideuschka, Michael Katz
Screenwriter: Michael Haneke
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Wega Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, France 3 Cinéma, Les Films du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool GmbH, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARD Degeto Film
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Language|A Disturbing Act|Mature Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 19, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.7M
Runtime: 2h 7m

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