Review of Amour (2012) by Jorge T — 17 Feb 2013

Since winning the highest award that can be given to a film, I felt the desire of watching this filmt, however, it grew in me the seed of doubt, given the simple images circulating on the internet and the little that critics talked about this film, which implied that this was one of those slow and boring movies despite its good message. But I was wrong.

There is no doubt that the film is not what we would call "fast", but despite being "slow", there was not a single moment where I felt bored or tired of looking at the screen.

The film is what I like to call a silent show. No visual effects, everything is based on the characters, their actions and words. In fact, the movie soundtrack is not more than a couple of songs on the piano. However, I did not realize about this fact until, at the end of the film, the credits emerged without a sound. Actually, the film has no need of soundtrack, the feelings of the characters have more value than any score trying to accompany the viewer on what you feel, or as some soundtracks, telling him what to feel. Besides, in real life there is no soundtrack right?

This film succeeds on presenting reality as it is, in fact is the most realistic movie I've seen in my life. Michael Haneke (director) is not afraid to keep the camera still while the woman reads, or while the man chases the pigeon. No, because that is the essence of the film, the routine, the life most of people have. Or maybe it's more correct to say, the life we ??will have, because everyone who sees the film will have its moment of reflection about the future.

There will be many people who will exit the theatre bored, or even will leve before the film ends. To those people, I would say that they should try to feel what the film gives and enjoy the talent of the director and the actors. If they are unable to appreciate it, perhaps it's because they don't dare to admit they have just seen their future and the future of the person who was next to them and the future of the person that was noisely eating popcorn.

We'll all die, one way or another.

For those like me, that were looking for a film talking about REAL life, this is your film.

I thought about giving it a 90%, but actually, there is nothing to complain about.