Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting
put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a
pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming
emotion.
No intentional thought was
put into the painting, as much as just
pure emotion, combined with allowing the paintings to feel as if they painted themselves.