# Amour Movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 25, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348 "2013-02-25T14:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![das60610](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@das60610](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/das60610)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348/1 "2013-02-25T14:21:16Z")

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Could someone please explain the ending?

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348/2 "2013-02-25T14:29:05Z")

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It ends in Cafe Society. 🙂

Reported for forum change.

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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348/3 "2013-02-25T14:57:26Z")

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It’s ambiguous. There are two interpretations I can think of:

[spoiler]  
The “realist”, depressing interpretation: Georges wanders around the apartment for a few days after Anne’s death, slowly losing his mind and writing letters to his dead wife. One day he hallucinates that Anne is resurrected, wanders out of the apartment, and disappears, probably dying in a gutter somewhere.

The “happy” interpretation: Georges dies in the bed in the spare bedroom. When he sees Anne at the end of the movie, he’s being led into the “next life” by her. (She does literally lead him out of the apartment at the end, saying something like “Aren’t you coming?”) The paramedics at the beginning of the movie are never shown going into the spare bedroom, so it’s possible that his body was in there.[/spoiler]  
I’m not Michael Haneke, and “Amour” is the only movie of his I’ve seen, so I don’t know which one is more plausible. Haneke has a reputation for being pitiless and cruel to his characters, so maybe the “realist” interpretation is what he intended. The “happy” interpretation definitely seems like more of a “Hollywood ending” than Haneke has done in the past, but there’s enough information there that you could support it too. The ambiguity may well have been intentional.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amour-movie/651348/4 "2013-02-25T15:36:56Z")

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Moved to Cafe Society.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator