By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions

"Amour," an unflinching meditation on the end of life, balances the remorseless progression of a wasting illness with the profound beauty of lifelong love.

In this tautly written account of one of the most dramatic moments in Benjamin Franklin's many-faceted life, there is enough to engage one's interest that a number of its imperfections can be overlooked.
Michael Haneke takes a subject you don't often see in movies and probably don't even want to see _ the slow, steady deterioration of an elderly woman _ and handles it with great grace in "Amour."