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Amour fou
Amour fou
7.0
/10
928 Ratings

AMOUR FOU

Directed by Jessica Hausner
Austria, Luxembourg, 2014
Drama, Comedy

Synopsis

Berlin, 1810. Young Romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist fails to convince his cousin to join him in a suicide pact—the ultimate expression of their love. He then falls for the married Henriette Vogel. At first, his offer baffles Henriette, but she reconsiders after learning she is terminally ill.

Synopsis

Berlin, 1810. Young Romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist fails to convince his cousin to join him in a suicide pact—the ultimate expression of their love. He then falls for the married Henriette Vogel. At first, his offer baffles Henriette, but she reconsiders after learning she is terminally ill.

Our take

Don’t expect a conventional costume drama here! Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner (Little Joe) takes up an infamous bad romance in 19th-century Berlin to make her fascinating twist on the genre. A sharp and tragic sense of the absurd flows beneath the film’s meticulously elegant surface.