Amour

Anne: It's beautiful. Georges: What? Anne: Life. So long.

Amour (2012 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Georges: [telling a childhood memory] ... some banal romance or other about a nobleman and a lower middle-class girl who couldn't have each other and who then, out of sheer magnanimity, decide to renounce their love - in fact, I don't quite remember it any more. In any case, afterwards I was thoroughly distraught, and it took me a bit of time to calm down. In the courtyard of the house where grandma lived, there was a young guy at the window who asked me where I'd been. He was a couple of years older than me, a braggart who really impressed me. "To the movies", I said, because I was proud that my grandma had given me the money to go all alone to the cinema. "What did you see?". I started to tell him the story of the movie, and as I did, all the emotion came back. I didn't want to cry in front of the boy, but it was impossible; there I was, crying out loud in the courtyard, and I told him the whole drama to the bitter end. Anne: So? How did he react? Georges: No idea. He probably found

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Anne: What would you say if no one came to your funeral? Georges: Nothing, presumably.

Amour (2012 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Anne: There's no point in going on living. That's how it is. I know it can only get worse. Why should I inflict this on us, on you and me? Georges: You're not inflicting anything on me. Anne: You don't have to lie, Georges. Georges: [looks down at the floor contemplatively] Put yourself in my place. Didn't you ever think that it could happen to me, too? Anne: Of course I did. But imagination and reality have little in common. Georges: But things are getting better every day. Anne: I don't want to carry on. You're making such sweet efforts to make everything easier for me. But I don't want to go on. For my own sake, not yours. Georges: I don't believe you. I know you. You think you are a burden to me. But what would you do in my place? Anne: I don't want to rack my brain over this. I'm tired, I want to go to bed.

Amour (2012 film), CC BY-SA 4.0