Georges and Anne are retired music teachers in their eighties, living a cultured and quietly ordered life in Paris. When Anne suffers a stroke, their world contracts to the intimate space of their apartment, and the couple’s lifelong bond is tested by illness, care and the limits of devotion. AMOUR is a devastatingly tender portrait of love at its most fragile.

Rialto Recommends AMOUR is cinema of extraordinary restraint and emotional power. Michael Haneke strips love back to its most essential question: what does devotion mean when the body begins to fail? Beautifully acted, unsentimental and deeply humane, it is a profoundly moving study of ageing, dignity and the promises people make to one another.