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      Amour fou

      2014 1h 36m Drama History List
      88% 51 Reviews Tomatometer 49% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Aug 29 Buy Now

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      Amour Fou risks overpowering its deceptively impactful story with its remarkable visuals, but ultimately forms a fascinating whole.

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      Nigel Andrews Financial Times The build-up scenes of talk and philosophising, in salons and sitting rooms, are hypnotic. Rated: 4/5 Aug 4, 2015 Full Review Guy Lodge HitFix From this droll premise, potentially as dark and dry as blackened toast, Hausner spins a witty, unexpectedly touching meditation on the nature of partnership and the elasticity of fate. Rated: B+ Aug 4, 2015 Full Review Nicole Armour Film Comment Magazine This visual confinement underscores the lack of intimacy and agency in Henriette's life. Her longing for escape is understandable. She's surrounded by men for whom a woman's life is predicated on silence. Aug 3, 2015 Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Amour Fou can be very opaque about what’s roiling underneath this perverse biopic, but that doesn’t make its final moments any less affecting. Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com It's a truly a film you don't want to look away from. Rated: 4/5 Oct 20, 2020 Full Review Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan One Room With A View Hausner has a created a studied and visually beautiful film that calmly presents a strange, haunting and fascinating true story. Rated: 4/5 May 17, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Good but slow and mostly uneventful. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review william k Interesting, but a bit stiff rendition of a historical literary occurrence adds a tinge of irony to an otherwise quite disturbing tragedy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Painfully slow paced, it undeniably brings up some interesting talking points but the experience of watching the film itself is frankly a bore. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A somber German film that heavily resembles period-piece Rohmer. Amour Fou is a film about Melancholic characters that manages to stray from being overly bleak, while also offering up some gorgeous shots. While some of it's political/hisotrical material may get lost in the impact fulness of the overall story, Amour Fou is fascinating through its craft and performances very well enough. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member "Amour Fou" is a slow, symmetrical, and suffocating period piece with a poetic, existential look at the human condition. It's in equal parts depressing and intoxicating. This one's a real gem. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member It's beautifully shot and contains some of the most human philosophy in its dialogue, Amour Phou is a colorful, rewarding experience that is as unpredictable as it is sophisticatedly simple. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.
      Director
      Jessica Hausner
      Producer
      Sarah Nagel, Isabell Wiegand
      Screenwriter
      Jessica Hausner
      Genre
      Drama, History
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 5, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $11.9K
      Runtime
      1h 36m
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