Amour (2012 film)

Amour pronounceda.mu French Love is a 2012 Frenchlanguage romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring JeanLouis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on 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 the right side of her body. The film is a coproduction among the French, German, and Austrian companies Les Films du Losange, XFilme Creative Pool, and Wega Film.

After residents of an apartment building complain of a weird smell coming from one of the apartments, the brigade of firemen and police break down the door of the apartment in Paris to find the corpse of Anne Emmanuelle Riva lying on a bed, adorned with cut flowers.The film goes back to several months before the opening scene, and Anne and her husband Georges JeanLouis Trintignant, both retired piano teachers in their eighties, attend a performance by one of Annes former pupils, Alexandre. They return home to find that someone has unsuccessfully tried to break in to their apartment. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, Anne silently suffers a stroke. She sits in a catatonic state, not responding to Georges. She comes around as Georges is about to get help, but doesnt remember anything that took place. Georges thinks she was playing a prank on him. Anne is unable to pour herself a drink. ........

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