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Michael Haneke cuts an imposing figure. Seated rigidly at one end of a long table in the windowless underground bunker of a hotel conference room during the Toronto International Film Festival, he is the very personification of no-nonsense. His newest might be considered his breakout, at least as far as the North American public is concerned. Amour stars two octogenarian French actors portraying a couple who must face the ravages of old age.
On Sunday, it won the Golden Globe in that category. Not least Haneke himself. Haneke spent time in nursing homes and hospitals to research the film, and spoke to speech therapists in order to write the part of a character who gradually loses her ability to speak. Some of that went directly into the movie. The director drew on his own experience as well. In one scene, Trintignant talks about having seen a movie decades earlier and being moved to tears. But I remembered this situation … and my tears.
It stayed with me. We remember things because of a feeling, not the situation. Memory is an emotional state. It was much more [about] what happens along the way — the process.
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