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Amour (1970 film)

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Amour
US film poster
Directed byGabriel Axel
Written byGabriel Axel
Produced byGabriel Axel
Henrik Sandberg
CinematographyRolf Rønne
Edited byEdith Nisted Nielsen
Lizzi Weischenfeldt
Music byBertrand Bech
Release date
  • 7 August 1970 (1970-08-07)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesDenmark
France
LanguageDanish

Amour (also known as Ways of Women) is a 1970 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel.[1]

The 94-minute movie contains three episodes. In part one, the year is 1200 and a young woman is married to an older, unkind man. Part two takes place in 1910 and the final part in the 1840s.

Cast

1st episode, c. 1200
2nd episode, c. 1910
3rd episode, c. 1840

References

  1. ^ Stevenson, J. (2009). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-4766-1259-1. Retrieved 19 February 2018. A film that was really much more interesting if hardly as successful was Gabriel Axel's Danish-French co-production Amour, which opened just a week after Bedside Manner. Composed of three self-standing chapters, it was an attempt to explore different film styles, to elaborate on themes from his earlier movies and in part to recreate ...