We Still Don't Know What "Love" Is
She, in this instance, is Emmanuelle Riva. The "Academy" (don't get me started) flubbed it; yet again! Not since, as a teenager, I was grabbed by Shelley Winters' performance in A Place In The Sun, have I been so taken by the performance of an actress in a film. Born when Shelly was seven years old, Emmanuelle, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, in the film Amour, was rivetting in her portrayal of what may prove to be the ultimate issue underlying most of our personal, social, and political turmoil today: ageing and death.
But there was love, too! The relationship portrayed by this couple is one worth much deeper study.
Alongside our fear of the ageing/death matter, lies our growing inability to get relationships to work.
Our definitions of "Love", "Man", "Woman", have all been seriously damaged over many decades by Hollywood. This film goes a long way to show us the path back to better days and a path forward to better days. Relationships like man/woman, husband/wife, parent(s)/child, old/young, are central to this story.
Amour won best picture in the "foreign" category, but Emmanuelle deserved best actress! If Hollywood ever gets around to giving awards for combined acting, this pair deserves to get the first one awarded. Jean-Louis provides new insights into to what it means to "be a man" -- a lesson so sorely needed now.
See the movie! Buy the movie; as I will when it comes available. Its the kind of movie you have to see more than once to "get it". As for the "Academy", well, Shelley blew the whistle on that bunch years ago. Oh, don't go to see this movie with anyone below the emotional age of 12!
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