Dir. Michael Haneke

2012 | 127 mins | France, Germany | French, English

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

Michael Haneke’s 2013 Oscar® and Palme d’Or-winning drama follows an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge yet.

Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), are two retired music teachers, married and living happily enough in an elegant Paris apartment. But when Anne suffers two strokes, she makes her husband promise that he will never put her in a home.

When he is obliged to look after her without support, it becomes an ordeal in which all they have is their love.Their love is real; and it is the only thing that gives their fragile lives meaning. But at what cost?

Screening as part of our Complicit: A Michael Haneke retrospective.

Michael Haneke’s often unnerving work explores alienation, violence and the disengagement of the bourgeoisie. The two-time Palme d’Or winner is a precise chronicler of social failings, and his confronting films force us to question our own upholding of the status quo.

Playing throughout August.

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BBFC Rating

Rated 12 – Contains one use of strong language and distressing scenes

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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