Writer/director Michael Haneke goes against his usual cold & distant tones and opts for the close & intimate in his heart-wrenching drama Amour.
It's a story about an elderly couple that has their love put to a most difficult test in their final days due to the wife suffering a paralyzing stroke. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva do a fantastic job at carrying the film as the couple that feels so natural you think you'd been watching them for years. The photography, while not too variable in angles or shots, is effective and somewhat mysterious. It's the type of film that completely crushes your heart and sometimes just too difficult to watch but somehow life reassuring at the same time.
4½ stories never told out of 5
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