Amour movie review & analysis (2012)

The opening of Amour is a flash-forward sequence. The police officers force entry into an apartment by breaking the door down. The apartment is reeking. They discover an older woman’s corpse on the bed, dressed in a formal gown and surrounded by wilted flowers, when they open the door to the room. In this scene, Michael Haneke spoils a major development later in the film by focusing on the events leading up to it and the process the film goes through to get there. In the following sequence, without concentrating on a specific individual, we see the older woman and her husband attending a piano performance by one of their pupils. A Schubert piece is being performed, which is Haneke’s favorite.

Artist couple Anne and Georges reside alone in a Paris flat. Up until one day, when the woman becomes unresponsive for approximately a minute while having breakfast, everything appears to be going well for them. Although a heart attack was probably inevitable at her age, her condition is deteriorating rapidly, and she may soon be paralyzed on her right side. She cannot perform the most basic daily duties because of her illness. Georges had told Anne that he would not hospitalize her; therefore, he must inevitably care for her with the assistance of another nurse.

In an interview about the film, Haneke explains, “I don’t want the film to be limited to expressing old age problems. As the title implies, this movie is about love and coping with losing a loved one. I am interested in that, not the difficulties associated with aging. Seeing a loved one in pain is much more awful than being unwell. As mentioned, I always intended to produce a movie on this emotion.”

In Haneke’s picture, cinematography, acting, editing, and scene design are vital. The issue, however, is that the emotion Hanke refers to is only created in the audience, and the male does not appear to experience either love or pity for the woman. Most of the film depicts a world where the man and woman aren’t romantically involved. The man shows no signs of romantic interest or affection, and when the woman refuses to drink water, he smacks her violently. Or the man screams at the woman indignantly after she accidentally collapses the lamp while struggling in her bed.

Does this mean there is no love between the man and the woman, or whatever love existed between them before this crisis broke down forever? Is love that is lost under adversity still love at all? It is tough to respond positively, yet it is unimportant. It’s clear from the film’s opening and in the man’s nightmare that the man does not love his wife. The man has a nightmare in which he is being strangled by his wife, and he wakes up frantic. The man seemed more afraid of his wife than he was in love with her. Perhaps we can figure out why the older man kills his wife if that’s the case. Because he cared for his wife and wanted to help relieve her pain? Or out of hatred and a desire to end his own pain?

In any case, with this action, the suffering of both ends, and from the consequentialist point of view, the old man’s act is monstrous and, at the same time, kind, but it is not wrong. The woman, who is clearly ready to die, has stopped eating and drinking to hasten her demise. Throughout the movie, they express their embarrassment over the occurrence by refusing to have their daughter see them at home and by asking her directly to never return. In the film’s final scene, after the man leaves his wife on the bed in a peculiar manner, a surreal atmosphere develops. The man and lady, who had entered the house together, now depart it together as the ending titles roll. Is the man also deceased? Does he commit suicide or join his wife by natural death? Perhaps, with the woman’s death, the souls of both will be released, and there will be bliss in the painful ends.

Amour ending explained:

Both Anne and Georges will be free at the end. After the procedure goes awry, she is left in a wheelchair and paralyzed on her right side. She asks Georges to pledge not to admit her to the hospital or a care facility again.

Amour finishes with a murder-suicide as Georges unravels, which should startle even casual viewers. He locks her chamber, follows a bird, dons his overcoat, and then disappears.

What is the age rating for Amour?

Amour received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA for its brief use of language and mature themes, including a frightening incident.

Is Amour a French film?

The 2012 French-language romantic drama film Amour, which is subtitled “Love” and written and directed by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, and Isabelle Huppert.

What are the themes in Amour?

Themes of death and the loss of a loved one are equally as common in Amour, despite the fact that it also conveys an essential lesson about real-life love and marriage. The reality of George witnessing his wife progressively deteriorate and die is undoubtedly the most tragic part of this movie, even though the pair continued to live in harmony until the very end.

Is Amour about dementia?

In this movie, an elderly woman who teaches music and her husband experience life-altering strokes. The two characters in “Amour” are powerfully portrayed as battling vascular dementia.