Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is an excellent film from Michael Hanake that depicts the challenges of caring for an ill loved one. I love a movie that makes you think about the characters and their morality, while giving the audience questions to answer. Is it harder to care for a someone you love, or be the helpless person who has to be cared for? Is euthanasia acceptable? What drives a person to care for an ill family member more, love or guilt? There is no definite answer to these questions. The director allows us to form answers ourselves. It is a quite simple movie, taking place mostly inside an apartment, with two main characters we follow for the entire movie. I would definitely recommend watching this movie when you're well-rested. The two main lead actors give extraordinary performances. Retrospectively, Emmanuelle Riva was probably robbed of a deserved Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this film. This is a hard watch but it is worth it. As one movie critic said: "don't let Amour be one of those great movies you never got around to watching." I highly recommend this movie for anyone who enjoys films with excellent acting, a great screenplay, and a deep meaning to the story being presented. P.S. Sony Pictures continues to provide the best video and audio presentation in the home video arena. This probably isn't too important to customers but I love how Sony releases Blu-Ray cases have film clip art posted on the inside side of the cover for the Blu-Ray case. It just makes me happy that I own the Blu-Ray and able to nest it in my collection. The extras are thin, but the quality of the movie completely makes up for the lack of supplemental features. This movie is spoken in French, so you must read subtitles if you aren't fluent in French, but if you're like me and have watched Jeff Bridges in True Grit one too many times, this is manna from heaven!

Emmanuelle Riva should have won the Best Actress Oscar! She definitely deserved it. The Oscar day was also her last birthday before her untimely death. Her performance took everybody's breath away in Europe. This movie should be used as a textbook for cinematic acting.

Movie was very entertaining, and realistic, the actors were spot on with their roles they played, good movie but sad. had its ups and downs, made me go through a so many different emotions, real life experiences.

This movie is suttle but sweet, harsh but gentle, powerful yet understated. Loved every minute of it!

Overall a great movie. A look at life and how we need to be there for each other.

This was an enjoyable film well worth all of its Oscar nominations.

Dat blu ray. What can I say. It's still on our shelf but we will get to it.

A heart-wrenchng story of a couple's love in the face of adversity

such a sad and depressing movie with one of the great performances of 2012. I just wish it had had some humor intertwined within all the heavy nihilistic story.

Best foreign picture winner amour meaning love in French