The latest attempt on the part of the Austrian director Michael Haneke to disturb our peace.
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Though the movie takes place in Paris, it qualified as Austrian, home country of its director, Michael Haneke.
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For his first English-language feature, Michael Haneke has chosen to remake his own dismaying and disorienting movie from 1997.
In Michael Haneke's "Amour, " we watch Emmanuelle Riva slowly dying, slipping into immobility, incoherence and unconsciousness as she suffers.
Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning French drama Amour (Love) leads the nominations at this year's European Film Awards with six nods.
His directorial style is polarizing, as he tends to favor long shots and minimalism, but Haneke is a true professional.
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Amour won best foreign film, although its director, Michael Haneke, and Riva were not at the ceremony to collect their prizes.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which won best foreign language film at the Oscars.
Michael Haneke is one of the most underrated directors in the world.
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"The fact that this film got three prizes is incredible, " Haneke said.
Haneke has made his bid for an Oscar with this literary, early 20th century period piece set in a small pre-War German town.
"I have the impression I am the oldest man in the room, " the 70-year-old Haneke joked in a room filled with young filmmakers.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which went on to win best foreign language film at the Oscars.
The event, held ahead of the Golden Globes, presented its best picture award to Michael Haneke's Amour, about an elderly couple coping with dementia.
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There are outside chances for David O Russell for Silver Lining Playbook, Michael Haneke for Amour and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Amour, a French movie from director Michael Haneke about an elderly couple nearing the end of their lives, has the lowest return of the nominated films.
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Michael Haneke's French-language "Amour, " a perfect film about intertwined lives, proceeds at its own pace, and breathes so deeply that it takes your own breath away.
Amour's nominations include one for film of the year, another for best foreign language film and dual awards for Michael Haneke in the director and screenwriter categories.
Unflinching and in French, it was a surprise best-picture nominee, and also received nominations for Haneke's direction, for original screenplay and for the performance of 85-year-old Riva.
Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Flight (John Gatins), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino), Amour (Michael Haneke), and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).
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Michael Haneke's keenly observed love story is also up for best picture, best direction, best actress in a leading role (for 85 year-old Emmanuelle Riva) and best original screenplay.
Amour's Michael Haneke is also up for best director.
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The monochrome imagery is not just jewel-sharp but, unusually for Haneke, touched with moments of loveliness and hints of peace, as in the subplot of a schoolteacher (Christian Friedel) and his beloved (Leonie Benesch).
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke's old-age love story "Amour" won for best international film, a possible prelude to the Oscars, where his film is the favorite to win the foreign-language prize and is nominated for best picture.
Other films have already been seen on the festival circuit at Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto - such as Michael Haneke's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
In the best director category, meanwhile, Benh Zeiltin, a New York rookie with just one feature under his belt sits alongside Michael Haneke, a powerhouse of European arthouse cinema with a reputation as formidable as his often austere demeanour.
The tastes of the directing branch skews indie, arty, and avant-garde, but from talking to voters, it seems as though the Affleck snub came about simply because a majority of nominators were so sure Affleck was in that they spent their votes on longshots, such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild's" Benh Zeitlin and "Amour's" Michael Haneke.
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