The Academy Awards ceremony is now less than a month away, and earlier this morning David Edelstein of CBS Sunday Morning took a close look at the most controversial nominee of them all: director Michael Haneke’s AMOUR. In his commentary and review, Edelstein remarks how shocked he was when the film pulled in 3 of the biggest nominations (i.e. Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress): “I was gobsmacked myself. “Amour” is a hell of a movie, but the Academy doesn’t often nominate foreign language films for the top prize, especially when they’re bleak, arty, glacially-paced, profoundly hopeless — I could go on.” Edelstein continues, “I’m not a fan of Michael Haneke’s other films, among them the thriller ‘Funny Games’ (made in German, and remade shot-for-shot in English); ‘The Piano Teacher’; and ‘Cache.’ Not to put too fine a point on it, I think he’s a pretentious punk, an arthouse thug, a sadist — don’t worry, he’d love these names, he lives to infuriate bourgeois types like me. But in ‘AMOUR’, he has a real-world antagonist even crueler and more brutal than he is: time.” You can watch Edelstein’s commentary below, and check out the trailer for AMOUR below as well. The Academy Awards air February 24th on ABC and CTV.
Time Is The Most Brutal Antagonist Of All: How “AMOUR” Swept This Year’s Oscar Nominations
Brent Lambert
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