....and appreciated the excellent acting and good direction, but found it very stark and increasingly depressing.
The Link
It's nominated for both Best Picture and for Best Foreign Language Film.
I wanted to check out the acclaimed performances of Emmanuelle Riva (nominated for Best Actress), Jean Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert plus the original screenwriting and direction of Michael Haneke (nominated for both).
Riva starred in "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" back in 1959, Trintignant supposedly had an affair with Roger Vadim's discovery/protege/wife Bridgitte Bardot when they all were making "....And God Created Woman" and he also appeared opposite Anouke Aimee in "A Man and a Woman" (both in 1956).
They are icons of French cinema.
Huppert was in "I Heart Huckabees," "Time of the Wolf" and "Heaven's Gate" and Haneke wrote and directed both versions of "Funny Games" and "The Piano Teacher," "Time of the Wolf" and "Cache."
These are all well-known, mostly European, art house type flicks, which IMHO have limited appeal for general audiences.
So, if you haven't heard of these movie makers or already enjoyed such cinematic endeavors as these in your personal movie going experience, you might not want/need to start now.
Or maybe you would.
As the title states, this movie is about love.
It's also about gowing old.
Spoilers ahead!!!!
I found "Amour" very realistic and truthful, but this aging love story quickly becomes hopelessly dark and grows ever darker until the final blackout at the end.
To me this flick was so somber with an outcome so inevitable and so unredeeming that it's almost a horror movie, without the things that can make a horror movie so entertaining.
JMO.
Still, the good film making and fine acting kept me interested.
Barely.
This film forces you to consider what will happen to each of us as we age and finally disappear from life, as quickly or as slowly as your life's end may turn out to be.
I'm almost 70, so I've cogitated about all that for awhile.
If you're young, congratulations.
You probably don't have to think about that stuff yet.
However, seeing this movie might remind you to give your parents (or grandparents) a call, if you're still able to do that.
Thoughts?
Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.
Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.
The Link
It's nominated for both Best Picture and for Best Foreign Language Film.
I wanted to check out the acclaimed performances of Emmanuelle Riva (nominated for Best Actress), Jean Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert plus the original screenwriting and direction of Michael Haneke (nominated for both).
Riva starred in "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" back in 1959, Trintignant supposedly had an affair with Roger Vadim's discovery/protege/wife Bridgitte Bardot when they all were making "....And God Created Woman" and he also appeared opposite Anouke Aimee in "A Man and a Woman" (both in 1956).
They are icons of French cinema.
Huppert was in "I Heart Huckabees," "Time of the Wolf" and "Heaven's Gate" and Haneke wrote and directed both versions of "Funny Games" and "The Piano Teacher," "Time of the Wolf" and "Cache."
These are all well-known, mostly European, art house type flicks, which IMHO have limited appeal for general audiences.
So, if you haven't heard of these movie makers or already enjoyed such cinematic endeavors as these in your personal movie going experience, you might not want/need to start now.
Or maybe you would.
As the title states, this movie is about love.
It's also about gowing old.
Spoilers ahead!!!!
I found "Amour" very realistic and truthful, but this aging love story quickly becomes hopelessly dark and grows ever darker until the final blackout at the end.
To me this flick was so somber with an outcome so inevitable and so unredeeming that it's almost a horror movie, without the things that can make a horror movie so entertaining.
JMO.
Still, the good film making and fine acting kept me interested.
Barely.
This film forces you to consider what will happen to each of us as we age and finally disappear from life, as quickly or as slowly as your life's end may turn out to be.
I'm almost 70, so I've cogitated about all that for awhile.
If you're young, congratulations.
You probably don't have to think about that stuff yet.
However, seeing this movie might remind you to give your parents (or grandparents) a call, if you're still able to do that.
Thoughts?
Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.
Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.
