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The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

Amour (Love)

2012

Michael Haneke

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell ...

7.6

32,709

Drama Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Magnificent in its simplicity and its relentless honesty about old age, illness and dying (...) There is never a false step or superfluous scene"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Haneke's most intimate film in nearly a quarter-century (...) [A] poignantly acted, uncommonly tender two-hander"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Michael Haneke's new film, a study of the effects of ageing and dementia on a blissful married couple, is intelligent film-making of the highest order (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Masterwork (...) A tender, wrenching, impeccably directed story of love and death"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Transfixing and extraordinarily touching, perhaps the most hauntingly honest movie about old age ever made"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An unexpected kind of masterpiece (...) We don't expect such unflinching seriousness, such profundity (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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