Mr. Trintignant, a popular star of French films in the 1960s and '70s, achieves in his role a ruefully calm transcendence.
The latter faces competition from Amour's Jean-Louis Trintignant, while Holy Motors' Edith Scob competes with Amour's Isabelle Huppert in the supporting actress category.
The film is up for best film and best director while its stars, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, are up for best actor and best actress.
The film stars octogenarian French acting greats Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a loving Parisian couple whose world is devastated by the wife's serious illness.
The film, which tells of an elderly French couple dealing with infirmity and dementia, also receives acting citations for its octogenarian stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.
In his black leather jacket, Duris is an anxious little hot shot with a twitchy, feral snarl that comes close to the reflexive grimace of the dangerous young Jean-Louis Trintignant.
To watch Mr. Trintignant in these moments, and to hear the subtle modulations of his spoken words into a kind of dulcet music, is to witness great acting stripped to the emotional bone.
Far from being claustrophobic, it is a place where happiness has taken root and bloomed: a placid Parisian apartment, lined with bookshelves, and inhabited by Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva).
The setting is a comfortable Parisian apartment, probably stylish in its day but showing its age, where Georges and Anne, a husband and wife played by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, share a life of quiet pleasures and comforting routines.
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