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L'Amour Fou

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A director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) cheats on his lover (Bulle Ogier) with other actors while rehearsing for a tragic play.

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Roger Greenspun New York Times 11/12/2007
4/5
L'Amour Fou, while possibly not a masterpiece, is a work of such interest, skill and intelligence that it deserves to be something better than a legend -- in what is, after all, still its own time. Go to Full Review
Time Out 11/12/2007
Rivette's claim to the status of a key innovator in contemporary cinema began with this film. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Slant Magazine 01/13/2007
2.5/4
L'Amour Fou is a transitional work for Jacques Rivette, the bridge to the superb Out 1 and its equally masterful re-edit Spectre. Go to Full Review
Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) 05/10/2024
A cinematic, cultural, social, and human experience... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 05/07/2024
5/5
‘…Rivette’s magic is the way that his films take us back to an unexplored, unexamined past that we can explore for ourselves as if we’re living someone else’s life….’ Go to Full Review
Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) 05/06/2024
... Long takes and slow developments reward the necessarily patient viewer with a rich study of art, cinema, and life. Go to Full Review
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08/01/2016 cinegeek.de Our Daily Free Stream: Jacques Rivette - L'Amour Fou (engl. subt.). Ein fast unbekannter Film von Jacques Rivette - jetzt zum Entdecken! Immer war es so, dass Rivette sich mit seinen Filmen am liebsten den Künsten widmete. Nicht nur, dass seine Werke ausserhalb dieser Welt der Cinephilen kaum Anklang fanden, er blieb auch mit seinen Sujets diesem Kreis treu. L'Amour Fou spielt am Theater. Claire (Bulle Olgier) und Sebastien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) arbeiten dort als Schauspielerin und Regisseur. Beide sind verheiratet. Während ihrer Proben zu einem Stück Racines übernehmen sie nun selbst die Rollen der Figuren. Während das Stück langsam entsteht, zerfällt die Ehe. Dieses vierstündige experimentelle Werk leitet Rivettes ganz eigene Kultur Revolution ein. Er bricht mit herkömmlichen Erzählstrukturen, klebt nicht mehr am Drehbuch. Auch die Schauspieler ordnen sich diesen Konventionen nicht mehr unter. Für L'Amour Fou wurde eine kürzere Zweistunden-Fassung hergestellt, die Rivette aber missfiel. Vier sollten es sein! L'Amour Fou, für Rivette mochte es der erste "echte" Rivette-Film sein. See more 01/26/2008 I don't really feel like saying anything about the film other than I watched all 252 minutes. See more 01/16/2008 The first half is brilliant. See more 11/29/2007 I'm not quite sure what to say here. The film is four hours long about, and it's about a film being made. In some ways I can't believe I watched the whole thing, but there is just something about it... (review to be continued). See more 11/08/2007 Much better than I expected it to be, better than Out 1, in fact, similar themes in a more compact form, with a disastrous, co-dependent relationship at it's core. When Bulle Ogier balances opened Matryoshka dolls on her bed and quizzically looks at them, it's the perfect metaphor for Rivette's early cinema. Or at least until the neat mirrors facing each other in one of the last chapters of Out 1. I mean, this is what I would say about the movie if I were a douchebag See more 09/06/2007 Rivette has worked the concept of actors performing a work and the effect it has on their lives in many of his films (Va Savior, Gang of Four) but here it is done to perfection. The performances by Bulle Ogier and Jean Pierre Kalfon are the finest of their careers. A masterpiece. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) cheats on his lover (Bulle Ogier) with other actors while rehearsing for a tragic play.
Director
Jacques Rivette
Producer
Georges de Beauregard
Screenwriter
Jacques Rivette, Marilu Parolini
Distributor
New Yorker Films
Production Co
Cocinor, Les Films Marceau, Sogexportfilm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 15, 1969, Wide
Runtime
4h 15m