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Love ( France 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 127’

Direction: Michael Haneke

Screenplay: Michael Haneke

Director of Photography: Darius Khondji

Sound: Guillaume Sciama, Jean-Pierre Laforce

Editing: Monika Willi, Nadine Muse

Cast: Jean-Louis, Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud.

Production: Les Films du Losange

Synopsis

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

Réalisateur

Michael Haneke. Austrian, he is part of the privileged circle of double palm in Cannes. Powerful, his filmography included: Der 7. Kontinent (1989), Benny’s Video (1992), 71 Fragmente Einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994), Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown, The Piano teacher (2001), adapted from Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Prize in literature, the film was awarded the Grand Prize and the Award for Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert, Magimel, The Time of the Wolf (2004), Caché (2005), Best Director award in Cannes, Funny Games (2007), The White Ribbon (2009), Palme d’Or at Cannes, Amour (2012) Palme d’Or at Cannes.