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The loss of the person whom you love and cherish the most in your life is an agony beyond imagining. Yet, to allow them to endure interminable suffering, is the most brutal cruelty, and insantity.  If you truly love someone, the only sane and merciful act is to free them from their pain.  This pain may be imprisonment within an unwanted relationship, or from a crippled and decaying body.  

In Life, and in Death, Freedom is more important than Love.

Amour (pronounced: [a.muʁ]; French for “Love”) is a 2012 French-language drama film.  The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on one side of her body. The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emmanuelle Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Michael Haneke) and Best Director (Michael Haneke).  At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.  At the 25th European Film Awards, it was nominated in six categories, winning in four, including Best Film and Best Director. At the 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards it won the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. At the 66th British Academy Film Awards it was nominated in four categories, winning for Best Leading Actress and Best Film Not in the English Language. Emmanuelle Riva became the oldest person to win a BAFTA. At the 38th César Awards it was nominated in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.