247 of 1001 Movies: Amour (2012)

Amour was a movie a couple of years ago made popular by the Oscars, or at least that is how I heard about it. I had been wanting to see it since, but without the list might not have checked it out considering my reservations about watching a movie that was perhaps as slow as this one. Though slow the story for the most part is very realistic. It isn't overly romantic if you're hoping for a cute tale of an older couple, and it isn't a pleasant depiction of dying. Where someone slowly drifts away till they wake up no more.

Summary: Georges and Anne are retired music teachers who on their last normal night together go to see a concert of their now famous past student, Alexandre. Their daughter, Eva, lives with her English husband, so she doesn't live nearby. When Anne suffers a stroke it leaves her paralyzed on her right side, and now she is dependent on Georges who also has his own struggle with age. The stroke, and the emerging problems it will cause will leave them trying to hold on to the love they've had for so long as it is tested in new ways.