Factory sealed DVD</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Insightful. Original. Exquisite. Georges and Anne have known a lifetime of love within their intimate marriage. Though their bond has survived times test its about to meet its greatest challenge. Acclaimed director Michael Haneke brings a performance tour-de-force to the screen in a film that exalts the beautiful compassionate and courageous within us all.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>An elegant elderly couple faces the ultimate challenge in Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's carefully controlled emotionally devastating <i>Amour</i>. Retired music professors Anne (Emmanuelle Riva <i>Hiroshima Mon Amour</i>) and Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant <i>The Conformist</i>) enjoy their last good day together when they attend the concert of a former student (pianist Alexandre Tharaud as himself). The next day Anne freezes at the kitchen table for a few minutes after which she goes on as if nothing happened. Georges encourages her to see a doctor who recommends surgery but the operation fails and she suffers a second stroke that paralyzes her right side. Georges copes the best he can with help from neighbors and home-care workers but Anne rapidly loses the ability to function on her own?? even to communicate?? which upsets their daughter?? Eva (Isabelle Huppert?? Haneke's <i