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Amour

Name: Amour
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2012-09-20
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 7.751

★ 7,8 /10 (1,793 Votes)

2012 FR 127 min

Overview

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 a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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Release date

20/09/2012

Votes

1,793

Popularity

4.8

Genres

Drama Romance

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

127 min

Budget

$8,900,000

Revenue

$29,800,000

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Georges

Emmanuelle Riva

Anne

Isabelle Huppert

Eva

Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre

William Shimell

Geoff

Ramon Agirre

Concierge's Husband

Rita Blanco

Concierge

Carole Franck

Nurse #1

Dinara Drukarova

Nurse #2

Laurent Capelluto

Police Officer #1

Jean-Michel Monroc

Police Officer #2

Suzanne Schmidt

Neighbour

Damien Jouillerot

Paramedic #1

Walid Afkir

Paramedic #2

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Superb drama about the final stage of the life of a middle-high class couple in France when one of them gets disabled due to a stroke. Bothe actors perform exceptionally.

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At a time when the whole concept of “assisted dying” is being scrutinised in the British Parliament, it’s a poignant time to watch this heartfelt drama that follows the decline of the elderly “Anne” (Emmanuelle Riva). She is a retired piano teacher who has been married to “Georges” (Jean-Louis Trintignant) for most of her life and with whom she shares a daughter in “Eve” (Isabelle Huppert). It’s at breakfast one morning that he notices something slightly amiss. She thinks it’s nothing but has soon suffered a debilitating stroke. She has partial movement and is still fairly compos mentis and so…

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