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manoush
May 27, 2015
A remarkable film in every way. "Amour" dissolves the distance between viewers and actors. You live every moment with this elderly French couple, experiencing their handsome apartment first as an airy, high-ceilinged, well-loved home then a suffocating, claustrophobic cage. The camerawork and lighting are so uncanny that you almost smell the creeping decay of a once-vital life. Jean-Louis Trintignant is magnetic to watch. Every move he makes, every facial gesture is so exquisitely controlled that you simply forget you're watching a veteran actor. The scene towards the end where the camera lingers on him standing over the sink calmly cutting delicate white flowers is unfathomably haunting. It has the quality of a painting that's both still life and numinous ritual.