Amour follows Georges and Anne, two retired music teachers in their eighties, as Anne suffers a series of strokes that leave her increasingly paralyzed and dependent. Georges devotedly cares for his wife within the confines of their Paris apartment, navigating grief, exhaustion, and an unwavering commitment to honoring her dignity. Michael Haneke's deeply intimate film is a profound meditation on love, mortality, and the sacrifices made in the name of devotion.
Haneke watches an elderly couple through the long humiliation of dying, with a tenderness so honest it is almost unbearable to sit through — and impossible to forget.
Michael Haneke films Emmanuelle Riva's stroke and Jean-Louis Trintignant's care in a Paris apartment. The film is the grief in real time, with no closing release.
