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Aug 27, 2024 · The meaning of AMOUR FOU is mad love : obsessive passion.
Jul 14, 2020 · A borrowing from French, the phrase amour fou, literally mad love, denotes uncontrollable or obsessive passion or infatuation. It was introduced into English as a theme of drama, prose narrative and cinema.
Amour Fou ("mad love") is a 2014 Austrian film directed by Jessica Hausner, starring Christian Friedel and Birte Schnöink. The story is set in Berlin in 1810 and 1811, and follows the German writer Heinrich von Kleist and his lover Henriette Vogel in the final stages of their lives.
With Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller. Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact.
Jan 15, 2015 · Desperately melancholy poet Heinrich is in search of a woman to join him in a suicide pact. Met by constant refusals, he finally finds a willing participant in well-to-do Henriette who has been ...
Amour Fou is a film about Melancholic characters that manages to stray from being overly bleak, while also offering up some gorgeous shots.
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Aug 17, 2018 · Amour Fou is a “romantic comedy” based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811. — Coproduction Office www.coproductionoffice.eu. Cannes Film Festival 2014 - Un Certain ...
Amour Fou. The French have a term for it, for the impossible, absolute, self-punishing and strange love that ignites and, like a nitrate print in flames, cannot be extinguished. Amour fou has been a perennial subject of French cinema and especially those filmmakers closely aligned with the Surrealists who found in rapturous mad love a sublime ...
Feb 10, 2019 · It’s almost Valentine’s Day but that doesn’t mean that film lovers need to get gushy and overly sentimental when it comes to romantic cinema. One of the most moving and exciting subjects of love-driven movies orbit around the idea of amour fou –– mad love.
L'Amour fou is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by Jacques Rivette, who co-wrote the script with Marilù Parolini.