“Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film.”

— Roger Ebert

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amour-2013 of Amour (9 January 2013)
Reviews, Four star reviews
Context: Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. … This is now. We are filled with optimism and expectation. Why would we want to see such a film, however brilliantly it has been made? I think it's because a film like Amour has a lesson for us that only the cinema can teach: the cinema, with its heedless ability to leap across time and transcend lives and dramatize what it means to be a member of humankind's eternal audience.

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American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942–2013

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