I guess I wasn't in the
right mood for this one as I found it utterly boring and thought the
otherwise good story could have been told in 30 minutes instead of
the two hours. As the movie starts with a scene from the end you
basically wait 2 hours for these old people to die, that in it self
isn't really exciting and as the pace is very slow in true Haneke
style it does get tedious. Now I'm being too harsh as it's not a bad
movie, the story is actually one of the better love stories I've seen and even though I didn't like the slow pace I can see it fitting
the story very well. It's a movie about two elderly people offering
each other total commitment, there's no candle lit dinners, no fun
trips abroad, no sex or any of the cliches you'd expect from a
romantic movie. It's just unconditional love. I don't know why
Emmanuelle Riva got the Oscar nomination and not Jean-Louis
Trintignant as even though Riva is great, it's Trintignant who really
carries this movie, kind of literally and figuratively. Would have
gladly given him the nomination as well as he's quite brilliant. This
movie reminded me of Haneke's first film The Seventh Continent (1989), following the seemingly boring every day life of a family while
waiting for something to happen. That something in The Seventh
Continent was absolutely devastating, but in this one the shock
moment is actually not a shock at all and it's even somewhat of a
beautiful moment in it's weird way. With a different mood this movie
would have most likely been absolutely brilliant, but now it just
dragged on way too long to make a point.
70%
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