From the director of such masterfully unsettling films as The Piano Teacher, Funny Games and Caché comes Palme d’Or 2012 nominee Amour, Michael Haneke’s latest and much-anticipated French-language film starring Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher), Jean-Louis Trintignant (Three Colors: Red) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour).

The narrative features an octogenarian couple, Anne and Georges, retired piano teachers who have been married for decades. Huppert plays their middle-aged daughter, Eva, also a musician, who is living abroad with her family. "I remembered how I’d always hear the two of you make love when I was a little kid," Eva tells her father when she walks into their apartment. "I had the feeling that you loved each other, and that you’d remain together forever." But when Anne suffers a stroke that leaves her partially paralyzed, the dynamic of Anne Georges' marriage is irrevocably altered — and their love is put to the test.

Austrian Haneke, who won the Palme d’Or for The White Ribbon in 2009, returns with another chilling, austere contender that is all the buzz at the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival. "One of the top five or so most eagerly anticipated film events of 2012,” Alt Film Guide calls it, while HitFix places it third on its Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of Cannes 2012.

—GEMMA JUAN-SIMO

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