#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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