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måndag, februari 25, 2013

Oscars 2013: 'Amour' wins for foreign language film

As the French might say, the victory of "Amour" for foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday was practically a fait accompli.

Pourquoi, you ask? Well, Michael Haneke's beautiful, elegiac film about a sudden crisis threatening an octogenarian couple's long love affair already had captured the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, as well as this year's Golden Globe in the foreign language category. The French-language movie -- it was the official entry from Austria, not France -- also had been nominated for the best picture Oscar, an extremely rare feat for a film not in English. /L A TIMES

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