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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Michael Haneke’s Love

Octogenarians put through the test of long lasting love via the hands of Haneke with Isabelle Huppert once again playing the adult daughter? I don’t think there’ll be shards of broken glass in this one. I’m really looking forward to the filmmaker’s chosen tone and discourse on this one — I imagine it to be soft, tender, and brutally honest depiction of growing old and take on a discourse that many baby-boomers are just beginning to realize — mortality and the breakdown of the human body via old age is inevitable.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 18, 2011

#09. Love

Director/Writer: Michael Haneke
Producers: Unknown
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: This centres on cultured octogenarians Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), who are retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne suffers a minor stroke. When she leaves the hospital and returns home, she is paralysed down one side. The love that binds this old couple will really be put to the test. (more)

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva

List Worthy Reasons…: Octogenarians put through the test of long lasting love via the hands of Haneke with Isabelle Huppert once again playing the adult daughter? I don’t think there’ll be shards of broken glass in this one. I’m really looking forward to the filmmaker’s chosen tone and discourse on this one — I imagine it to be soft, tender, and brutally honest depiction of growing old and take on a discourse that many baby-boomers are just beginning to realize — mortality and the breakdown of the human body via old age is inevitable.

Release Date/Status?: He won the Palme d’or with his last feature so Cannes is the logical destination, but he’ll have to work at breakneck-speed to accomplish this feat.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).