Amour has captured the hearts of movie-buffs, critics, and those that bestow those coveted awards every year. The Austrian film—I know, you thought it was French!—swept France’s César Awards this past Friday evening: Best Film, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. It also received the Palme d’Or award at Cannes this past spring. At tonight’s Academy Awards, this wonderful movie is in contention for five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Original Screenplay. Sadly, Jean-Louis Trintignant was not nominated for Best Actor. Amour is not a movie for everyone. It is an emotionally-raw, starkly honest, and intensely intimate film about the love between two octogenarian music teachers who have been married so long that they know one another other as well as they know themselves. Their devotion is tested by the downward spiral of Anne (played by Emmanuelle Riva) following a debilitating stroke and subsequent unsuccessful surgery. Her husband Georges (played by Mr. Trintignant) takes on the painfully difficult task of caring for her. As Georges’ vibrant wife devolves into a spirit-less shell before his eyes, we watch how he struggles to cope. [...]