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Amour
Georges et Anne sont octogénaires, ce sont des gens cultivés, professeurs de musique à la retraite. Leur fille, également musicienne, vit à l'étranger avec sa famille. Un jour, Anne est victime d'un accident. L'amour qui unit ce couple va être mis à rude épreuve.
112 pages, Paperback
Published October 19, 2012
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Michael Haneke
18 books22 followersOne of most remarkable auteurs in modern cinema, best known for films such as Funny Games (1997), Caché (2005), The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012). His work often examines social issues, and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society
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July 2, 2025
Amour by Michael Haneke – one of the best film makers of all time, nominated for three Palme d’Or awards, winner of two, my note on his fabulous La Pianiste https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/... where you can find a few thousand other reviews, not that you should bother
9 out of 10
Last night, I could watch The Seventh Continent on Cinemax and appreciate the magic touch of Michael Haneke, an artist in the same league with Stanley Kubrick https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/06/... and the creme de la crème, with wonderful creations, from Funny Games…
To Amour
My previous look at this magnificent motion picture is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/... this an impressive, touching, complex story a tragedy that deserves admiration
‘My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nursest the disease/ Feeding on That which doth preserve the ill/ The uncertain sickly appetite to please/ My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept…
- Hath left me and I desperately now approve desire is death, which physics did except
Past cure I am, now reason is past care
And frantic mad, with ever more unrest
My thoughts and my discourse as mad men are
At random from the truth vainly expressed…’
Shakespeare
It came to my mind, first because he is the Magister Ludi, the absolute best, I mean, if it was not somebody else, they keep speculating that it could have been Marlowe, that William Shakespeare did not have the knowledge, education…
Nevertheless, it is magnificent, whoever the author was, second, it is representative of the under signed, what with madness, ‘now reason is past care’, and then it is also what happens in Amour, to some extent at least
Spoiler alert, there comes a point when it has to end, and the films of Michael Haneke are brutally honest, one could joke and say sadistic, because there is violence, psychological, but also physical in most
Funny Games ahs these couple of villains who attack a family and inflict pain and torture innocent people, there is the trap they set in The White Ribbon and the many dramas in Happy End https://realini.blogspot.com/2018/04/... Amour is complex and thought provoking
- Is it murder or euthanasia?
There was a spoiler alert, right?
I was thinking about Damien Hirst and his art, that is dead animals cut in half and placed in formaldehyde, valued at what, millions of dollars, anyway, the artist is getting a huge package for his productions
So why couldn’t I just put whatever dead beat thoughts in these notes, nobody is paying after all, money or attention?
So, I move on to…Shakespeare in love, just because the great – no, the greatest – writer has been mentioned and then I remembered the story of the movie, how they were supposed to have Julia Roberts doing it
Indeed, because she was a giant name, A-list, what with Pretty Woman (Matt Gaetz the imbecile, all in the orbit of Orange Jesus are, including the wizard of rockets, took the under-age sex workers to see this movie, prompting Jimmy Kimmel to joke that it is like taking the giraffe at the zoo) and the box office it had, she was vital…
For the making of the movie, but she wanted Daniel Day Lewis to be Shakespeare and he said no, because he was making In The Name of The Father at the time, a huge success, juts like almost all the Daniel Day Lweis films
Julia Roberts insisted, sent flowers, while they offered her other great thespians, some who would go on to win their own Oscars, Colin Firth and others in the same superb elite – not known then though – and she said no
Worse still, she just left, abandoning the project, which looked like being dead, after a few years though, it would be made with Gwyneth Paltrow, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/...
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
9 out of 10
Last night, I could watch The Seventh Continent on Cinemax and appreciate the magic touch of Michael Haneke, an artist in the same league with Stanley Kubrick https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/06/... and the creme de la crème, with wonderful creations, from Funny Games…
To Amour
My previous look at this magnificent motion picture is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/... this an impressive, touching, complex story a tragedy that deserves admiration
‘My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nursest the disease/ Feeding on That which doth preserve the ill/ The uncertain sickly appetite to please/ My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept…
- Hath left me and I desperately now approve desire is death, which physics did except
Past cure I am, now reason is past care
And frantic mad, with ever more unrest
My thoughts and my discourse as mad men are
At random from the truth vainly expressed…’
Shakespeare
It came to my mind, first because he is the Magister Ludi, the absolute best, I mean, if it was not somebody else, they keep speculating that it could have been Marlowe, that William Shakespeare did not have the knowledge, education…
Nevertheless, it is magnificent, whoever the author was, second, it is representative of the under signed, what with madness, ‘now reason is past care’, and then it is also what happens in Amour, to some extent at least
Spoiler alert, there comes a point when it has to end, and the films of Michael Haneke are brutally honest, one could joke and say sadistic, because there is violence, psychological, but also physical in most
Funny Games ahs these couple of villains who attack a family and inflict pain and torture innocent people, there is the trap they set in The White Ribbon and the many dramas in Happy End https://realini.blogspot.com/2018/04/... Amour is complex and thought provoking
- Is it murder or euthanasia?
There was a spoiler alert, right?
I was thinking about Damien Hirst and his art, that is dead animals cut in half and placed in formaldehyde, valued at what, millions of dollars, anyway, the artist is getting a huge package for his productions
So why couldn’t I just put whatever dead beat thoughts in these notes, nobody is paying after all, money or attention?
So, I move on to…Shakespeare in love, just because the great – no, the greatest – writer has been mentioned and then I remembered the story of the movie, how they were supposed to have Julia Roberts doing it
Indeed, because she was a giant name, A-list, what with Pretty Woman (Matt Gaetz the imbecile, all in the orbit of Orange Jesus are, including the wizard of rockets, took the under-age sex workers to see this movie, prompting Jimmy Kimmel to joke that it is like taking the giraffe at the zoo) and the box office it had, she was vital…
For the making of the movie, but she wanted Daniel Day Lewis to be Shakespeare and he said no, because he was making In The Name of The Father at the time, a huge success, juts like almost all the Daniel Day Lweis films
Julia Roberts insisted, sent flowers, while they offered her other great thespians, some who would go on to win their own Oscars, Colin Firth and others in the same superb elite – not known then though – and she said no
Worse still, she just left, abandoning the project, which looked like being dead, after a few years though, it would be made with Gwyneth Paltrow, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/...
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
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