Oscars Special: Director Michael H. Profession

Michael Haneke Michael Haneke’s Oscar acceptance speech last night was a characteristically terse affair. Winning the Best Foreign Film award for Amour, an uncompromising poem on the terrifying effects of old age, Austria’s foremost director thanked his cast and crew in his low Teutonic brogue, before giving a touching but quick tribute to his wife of 30 years. It is this unstarry, unflinching attitude that grounds Yves Montm...