An uncompromising, devastatingly intimate chamber drama about the final act of a long marriage. Haneke transforms a Parisian apartment into a claustrophobic vessel where love battles the slow, inevitable erosion of the self.
Amour
Director:
Michael Haneke
Cast:
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell
Drama
Romance
Budget:
$8,900,000
Box Office:
$29,800,000
Amour - Easter Eggs & Hidden Details
Easter Eggs
Connection to 'Happy End' (2017)
In Haneke's later film Happy End, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a character (also named Georges) who confesses to his granddaughter that he smothered his wife to end her suffering, effectively making Happy End a spiritual sequel or shared universe to Amour.
Reference to 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (1959)
Casting Emmanuelle Riva is a meta-cinematic nod to her most famous role in Hiroshima Mon Amour. It creates a poignant bookend to her career, contrasting the passionate, traumatic love of her youth with the decaying, final love of her old age.
The Paintings
The landscape paintings on the walls are real heirlooms from Haneke's family, reinforcing the deeply personal nature of the story.