CANNES, France – It's 43 years since Jean-Louis Trintignant was named the CannesFilm Festival's best actor for "Z," and 14 years since the Frenchperformer all but gave up filmmaking to focus on the stage. He was tempted back by Michael Haneke's Cannes entry "Amour"("Love"), which looks unflinchingly at death through the story ofan elderly Parisian couple. It may win the 81-year-old actor another prize. Trintignant and85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva bowled over the Cannes audience Sundayas a devoted couple coping with the wife's worsening health. TheHollywood Reporter called it "magnificent in its simplicity and itsrelentless honesty." Trintignant — who first gained fame in 1956 opposite BrigitteBardot in ".. And God Created Woman" — said he's been inmore than 100 films, "but this was the first time I was pleased tosee myself on screen." "It was a wonderful opportunity, but I won't do it again," he toldreporters in Cannes. "It was painful, but it was beautiful at thesame time." Haneke is a Cannes favorite who won the Palme d'Or in 2009 with"The White Ribbon," a stark portrait of moral erosion in pre-WorldWar I Germany. The Austrian is a famously demanding director who createscontrolled but often devastating portraits of individuals, familiesand communities riven by repression and violence. "Amour" breaks new ground in its obvious compassion for itscharacters, alongside an unflinching portrait of the realities ofold age. "I've never met such a demanding director," Trintignant said. "Heknows exactly what he wants his film to look like. He knows thecinema through and through. "It's a very difficult task," he said of acting in a Haneke film."I don't advise that you do it," he added — at least partlyjoking. Co-stars Riva and Isabelle Huppert — who plays the couple'sdaughter — insisted that working with Haneke was a joy. It's the spectators who suffer, not the actors," Huppert said. Many of the film's scenes are emotionally raw, but Trintignant saidthe trickiest sequence to film was one in which his character triesto trap a pigeon that has flown into the house. "That was very painful, because Michael wanted to direct the pigeon— and he didn't think the pigeon was very good," Trintignantsaid. "He made the pigeon do things again and again and I think therewere two pigeons because one gave up." "Amour" is one of 22 films competing at the festival, which runs toMay 27. ___ Jill Lawless can be reached at: Twitter.com/JillLawless. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China HD Home Cinema Projectors , HD TV Projectors Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits 1080p Home Theater Projectors.
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