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    Why That Oscars Performance of ‘Shallow’ Was So Stunning

    Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s live rendition of the duet from <em>A Star Is Born</em> was filmed like a movie—and made viewers feel like voyeurs.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Feb 25, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Reuters / Handout

    Maybe what made Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s performance of “Shallow” so stunning at the is also what spoiled ’s Best Picture chances: It treated the dinged-uptropes of romance for romance’s sake as something that can still feel new, which is like treating the greeting-card aisle at CVS as the place for the next great American novel. Taking on a third remake of a story that than even the 1937 original, Cooper’s film insisted that intensity,, or on matters of taste. If many viewers drank it up, inevitably some would spit it out.  

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