AMOUR: The Love Of My Life

AMOUR has 5 nominations in 2012 Oscars, Best Actress in the Leading Role, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture and Best Foreign Film and took the golden statue for the latter category.

AMOUR deals with the golden days of a couple whose marriage reached for more than 75 years (I presume). With only one daughter (Isabelle Huppert) who is also a musician as both Georges (Jean-Luis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Reva) are music teachers that lives far from them, a stroke attacked her mother that brought chief challenge in the couples married life.

With a towering performance of Emmanuelle Reva – that made her the oldest nominee in Oscars for Best Actress – the film is very close to honesty and reality. I felt the plot tackled the issue on coping and managing the suffering of a love one depicted in a profound love and responsibility.

In our local cinema, we have “Mamay Umeng” (2012), a Cinema One Originals finalist, a movie that also deals with an old age awaiting for his death. I may say that Anne and Umeng had the same feelings at certain point though their condition may be different.

Younger audience will need a longer patience to finish these films but there were numerous precious scenes that you have to see. AMOUR’s ending is a big revelation and moving, just saying.

AMOUR has garnered various awards from different film festivals from Golden Globes, Cannes, British, Europe, Dubai, Bodil, Bavarian, Critics Choice, Durban, Golden Reel and in the US such as Ney York, Oklahoma, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Toronto, Utah, Vancouver, Houston, Kansan, Chicago and many other award giving bodies.

AMOUR is really a TRIUMPH!

Rating: 5/5