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Good Times: Remembering the controversy over "Amour"

Good Times: Remembering the controversy over "Amour"

In February 2013, I decided to walk into the line of fire to defend filmmaker Michael Haneke and his film "Amour," which Christians were hailing as a culture-of-death movie and a "Nazi film remake."

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I’ve been working with my website designer Carl-Eric Tangen to strengthen some of the time-worn aspects of my website Looking Closer, and I keep getting distracted by things I find there that I’d forgotten about.

Here’s one for the Looking Closer Hall of Fame: the hubbub that happened when filmmaker Michael Haneke released Amour.

I suspect many of you wer…

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