Amour? Love? ¿Amor?

Pocas veces sale uno tan incómodo de una película tan premiada. Por lo visto es la sensación buscada por el
director. Buscada y conseguida. Los espectadores salimos como de un velatorio.
It's not very often that one leaves an award-winning film so uncomfortable. From the appearance of things, it's the feeling the director was looking for. Looked for and found. As spectators we left the film as if leaving a wake.

Título original: Amour / Love

Dirigida por: Michael Haneke

Guiónista: Michael Haneke

Nacionalidad: Francia – Alemania – Austria

Idioma: Francés

La pareja protagonista, cuyos actores interpretan el papel a la perfección, han sido músicos, cultos y acostumbrados a vivir en un ambiente exquisito. Su piso es grande y amueblado y decorado con buen gusto estético. Suponemos que debemos entender que se quieren y siempre se han querido. Pero en toda la película nunca se les ve declararse el amor. Lo que se ve es que tienen unas costumbres y tradiciones de pareja y que se tratan con cortesía y respeto.

The main couple, whose actors performed the role to perfection, had been musicians, educated and accustomed to living in an exquisite environment. Their flat is large and their furniture and interior decoration is aesthetically in very good taste. We suppose that we should understand that they love each other and that they have always loved each other. But during the entirety of the film you never see them tell one another that they love each other. What you see is that they have routines and traditions or customs as a couple and that they treat each other with courtesy and respect.

Toda la película tiene un tono triste y desesperado.

The entire movie has a sad and desperate tone.

Cuando la mujer enferma y su estado se va deteriorando progresivamente, el marido la cuida estoicamente con la misma cortesía que les caracteriza. Incluso llega a despedir a una enfermera porque no la trataba con suficiente respeto y consideración.

When the women gets sick and her condition is rapidly deteriorating, her husband takes care of her stoically with the same courtesy that characterizes them. He even reaches a point in which he fires a in-home nurse because she didn't treat her with enough respect and consideration.

Viven solos, sin intimidad con amigos, ni vecinos, ni siquiera con su hija cuyo distanciamiento es dramático.

They live alone, without intimacy with friends, neighbors, nor even with their daughter whose is dramatically distant from them.

Sinceramente, mi esposa Mary y yo lo hemos hablado y coincidimos, en esta película se nos hace ostensiblemente presente Dios precisamente por su ausencia. Dios habría aportado lo que falta: sentido, esperanza e incluso alegría.

Honestly, my wife May and I have talked and agree, in this movie God is ostensibly present by his absence. God would have provided what is missing: feeling, hope ad even happiness.

Mi madre murió hace seis meses, después de sobrevivir a mi padre seis años. Puedo decir que ni la vejez, ni la enfermedad, ni la muerte tienen por qué ser como se muestran en esta película. Para que sean diferentes es suficiente con que Dios y el Amor, de verdad, estén presentes.

My mother died six months ago, after having outlived my father six years. I can say that neither of age, nor sickness, nor death have to be shown as they are in this film. To be different, what is needed is God and Love to be present.