AMOUR
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. Winner of Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Winner Best Foreign Picture. Nominated for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture at the Oscars. Part of the ongoing RENDEZ-VOUS with FRENCH CINEMA series at Cosford Cinema this March.
"In the history of movies about love, AMOUR shall last forever."
-Mary Corliss, TIME
"A tender, wrenching, impeccably directed story about love and death."
-Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES
"Transfixing and extraordinarily touching, perhaps the most hauntingly honest movie about old age ever made."
-Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Austria/France. 2012, Digital Projection, 127minutes, Color, French with English Subtitles.