Music, Cinema & Books

CINEMA: Questioning the amorous gaze*

By Editorial Team / April 13, 2013

A multi-award-winning film, Amour (rated M), is reviewed by Symeon Thompson. Georges Laurent (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and ailing wife Anne (Emmannuelle Riva). Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s Amour is an undoubtedly important film. It has won 43 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d’Or at Cannes, as well as receiving another 36 nominations. At the same time, it has been denounced as propaganda for euthanasia. Such denunciations miss …

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