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| Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva |
Amour provided Austrian Director, Michael Haneke, with a second and back-to-back Palme d'Or at Cannes for this insightful and sensitive film on old age and the end-of-life. The story revolves around an elderly couple, Georges and Anne, retired music teachers living in their twilight years. Cultivated and dedicated to each other, their relationship is tested when Anne suffers a stroke and Georges decides to care for her at home rather than rely on hospitals and aged care institutions. Their daughter, also a musician lives abroad with her family but returns on learning of her mothers plight. Georges is portrayed by veteran French actor, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne by Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Hubbbert is their daughter. This is quite a confronting, tell-it-as-it-is film but captures a couple's lifelong commitment to each other in an ultimate love story and finally the moment when it's time to say goodbye. A French language film with English subtitles.
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