{"id":501,"date":"2012-12-30T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:36:51","slug":"love-amour-thu-3-october-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2012\/12\/love-amour-thu-3-october-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE (AMOUR), Thu 3 October, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Michael Haneke’s effortlessly graceful picture will come to be seen as one of the greatest films about the confrontation of death and ageing.”<\/em> – Observer<\/p>\n

“This is Michael Haneke’s second Palme d’Or winner and shows the director as a film-maker of incomparable seriousness and weight, and this is a passionate, painful, intimate drama\u00a0to be compared with Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage.”<\/em> – Guardian<\/p>\n

” intelligent film-making of the highest order”<\/em> – Guardian, 5 Stars<\/p>\n

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A masterpiece from the director of Hidden and The White Ribbon. An elderly Parisian couple, both retired music teachers, face their final act together as Anna descends into illness.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Michael Haneke. France, Germany, Austria, 2012. 127 minutes. Cert: 12A. Language: French<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFrom the director of Hidden and The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke\u2019s extraordinary new drama\u00a0Amour\u00a0is announced as the Closing Gala of the Official Selection. \u00a0Amour\u00a0is the Austrian writer\/director\u2019s second Palme d\u2019Or winner at Cannes where the film was hailed as a masterpiece after its world premiere. \u00a0Georges (Jean- Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emanuelle Riva) are a couple in their eighties who have been in a close loving relationship for most of their lives. They are both retired from teaching music and live in a spacious Paris apartment, with a daughter (Isabelle Huppert) in England. \u00a0One day Anna suffers a loss of memory, the first sign of her emerging illness, and Georges faces the end of their final act together. – Leeds International Film Festival 2012<\/p>\n

Starring:\u00a0Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell<\/p>\n

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Click here to read Philip French’s review in The Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to read Peter Bradshaw’s 5 star review in The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n

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