The sense of not belonging, of being
unaccepted by the social, ethical, and religious requirements of his times led him to identify in a special way with the outcasts in order to give them a new and
more secure sense of relationship, and therefore of life.
And that's just what it is — something we live through with Georges, Anne, and the guilty, panicked,
unaccepting Eva (Huppert), something horrific but beautiful, the decline into invalidity and death of a wife and mother throwing into very sharp relief the truth, the authenticity, and the inexhaustibility of her and her husband's love as he faces ever
more painful choices about how to care for his wife, how to relieve her of her awful suffering, and how to let her go.