Amour Fou

Nominee
Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize
Cannes Film Festival
A daring, dark satire strewn with allusions to modern times.
-- David Parkinson, Empire Magazine

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Amour Fou

Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate the uncharted journey towards a suicide pact with him, at once awkward and enlightening for them both. Rather than a declaration of passionate devotion, Amour Fou - inspired by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel - goes against expectations to become a wry and curious denunciation of dying for love.

"A delicate, cerebral romantic comedy...Hausner's unapologetically small, exquisitely designed chamber piece plays as a gentle challenge to the ways in which we define love and dictate courtship." (Guy Lodge, Hitfix)
Not Rated
Genre
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Runtime
96
Language
German
Director
Jessica Hausner
Cast
Christian Friedel, Birte Schnoeink, Stephan Grossmann
Awards:
Nominee, Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

The struggle of German poet Heinrich von Kleist to arrange the perfect romantic suicide in 1811 becomes the stuff of icy black comedy in the ever-steady hands of writer-director Jessica Hausner (Lourdes). This 2014 feature unfolds largely from the perspective of Henriette Vogel, the aristocratic ...

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