Amour fou

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Amour fou

2014

1h 36m

Drama

History

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

It's a truly a film you don't want to look away from.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 20, 2020

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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

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Audience Member

Good but slow and mostly uneventful.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jessica Hausner

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Christian Friedel

Heinrich

Birte Schnoeink

Henriette

Stephan Grossmann

Friedrich Louis Vogel

Katharina Schüttler

Sophie

Sebastian Hülk

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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: André Fetzer, Ole Nicolaisen
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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