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2015
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 36 m

2015
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 36 m

Summary 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. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets H...

Directed By: Jessica Hausner

Written By: Géraldine Bajard, Jessica Hausner

2015
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 36 m

2015
Not Rated
Film Movement
1 h 36 m

Amour Fou

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

69

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

7.5

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Summary 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. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets H...

Directed By: Jessica Hausner

Written By: Géraldine Bajard, Jessica Hausner

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
11 Reviews

27% Mixed
4 Reviews

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
11 Reviews

27% Mixed
4 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Mar 20, 2015

Amour fou, has gone some of the way towards correcting the historical imbalance of interest in the suicide pact. She’s taken liberties with the facts of the case for dramatic effect, but also because two centuries is a long time to go without someone wondering whether Vogel being shot point blank in the chest was entirely consensual.

By Scout Tafoya FULL REVIEW

Mar 17, 2015

The artificiality is funny but also thematically resonant: This is a film about fake feelings, the invented romance for which two strangers forfeited their futures. And to Hausner, such a colossal waste of potential deserves not a melodramatic tribute, but the cinematic equivalent of an eye-roll.

By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

83% Positive
5 Ratings

17% Mixed
1 Rating

0% Negative
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User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

83% Positive
5 Ratings

17% Mixed
1 Rating

0% Negative
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Mar 17, 2015

One thing’s certain: This is no swoony love story. It intoxicates all the same.

By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

Mar 18, 2015

The very German lack of emotion is so acute it can be hard to tell when Hausner’s playing for laughs, but Friedel is hilariously — if morbidly — tedious as the tortured writer whose pickup line is, “Would you care to die with me?”

By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Mar 17, 2015

it can be a strategically off-putting movie yet one that also steals under your skin scene by scene and through Ms. Schnoeink’s slowly revealing performance as an ill-fated heroine turned future biographical footnote.

By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Mar 20, 2015

That writer-director Jessica Hausner moves things along at such a glacial pace and fills her velvety frames with the equivalent of museum-quality oil paintings instead of with living, breathing humanity, only adds to the film's turgid quality.

By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

Mar 17, 2015

Hausner’s previous feature, Lourdes, was sometimes frustratingly opaque, but at least it had a discernible pulse. Here, she seems more interested in period décor and symmetrical compositions than in Kleist, Vogel, or any of the ideas they espouse and/or embody. Her impressive formalism is hollow.

By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Coop99 Filmproduktion, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Arte France Cinéma, Coproduction Office, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria (FISA), Land Niederösterreich, Luxembourg Film Fund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, WDR/Arte, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Österreichisches Filminstitut

Release Date Mar 18, 2015

Duration 1 h 36 m

Rating Not Rated

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Awards

Austrian Film Award, AT

• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations

International Cinephile Society Awards

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

FICUNAM Festival International de Cine UNAM

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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