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In the Library Request this item to view in the Library's reading rooms using your library card. Order a copy Copyright or permission restrictions may apply. We will contact you if necessary. To learn more about Copies Direct watch this short online video. The action is largely restricted to Anne and Georges' apartment, but the film gets maximum value out of this single set: as the characters hobble from one room to another, we come to know the floor plan inch by inch.
Without departing too obviously from realism, cinematographer Darius Khondji varies the lighting to suit the emotional tenor of each scene. In a dream sequence halfway through, Georges' slow progress down a darkened corridor becomes a terrifying image of impending oblivion. As usual, Haneke does without background music - substituting a minor-key soundscape of domestic noises, emphasising Anne and Georges' shortness of breath. The film has the still, solemn quality associated with Ingmar Bergman's work, though without a trace of Bergman's metaphysical angst.
Amour is not the tear-jerker it might have been in other hands, partly because of Haneke's highly self-conscious approach to the game of fiction.
While he clearly appreciates actors - and has worked with some of the greatest - he tends to rely on stock characters who can be easily manipulated to prove abstract points. Anne and Georges are an archetypal nice old couple, cultured and courteous, far more sympathetic than the similarly named pairs in earlier Haneke films such as Hidden and Funny Games.
Yet a suspicion persists that their apparent decency is a ruse, and that the director is up to his old trick of confronting the complacent bourgeoisie with existential horror. Beneath the film's decorous surface lies a hint of scepticism about the value of culture: what use are Schubert and Beethoven in the face of decrepitude and death?
The initially ladylike Anne ends by crying out like a trapped animal; the longer we look into Georges' dark, reptilian eyes, the less knowable he seems. The subject matter of Amour will likely trigger painful, personal associations in practically any viewer: there's something potentially exploitative about pushing these buttons so directly. The film made a good attempt at focusing on Viktor's love for cinema, through use of subject matter and a focus on basic human mannerism and interaction.
I found however, this attempt became slow and had me literally on the edge of my seat waiting for a scene change. This term was touched on and also contradicted throughout this documentary. It was not the subject matter, nor Viktor who let down the film, but instead the style. The story, which was already bleak in nature, was transformed into a muted, slow paced representation of the loss of something magical.
Cinema, mon amour screened as part of the Sydney Film Festival. You May Also Like.
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