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Completed - GERMAN - Drama - 90 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2014 (Debut)
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Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Jessica HAUSNER

Synopsis

"Amour Fou" is inspired by the life and death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his partner in death, Henriette Vogel. However, rather than being a biographical portrait, the film is to be understood as a parallel above the ambivalence of love.
"Amour Fou" deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of their love for one another. The goal behind such an act is the yearning to escape the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and to oppose all-powerful death by dictating the term's of one's death. However the fundamental absurdity lies in the fact that the joint act cannot be experienced jointly in any complete sense, since love is fickle and ambivalent, and everybody- in the final analysis- must die alone.

Production

Country(ies) : AUSTRIA

AUSTRIA Nov 07, 2014 STADTKINO FILMV
AUSTRIA Nov 07, 2014 STADTKINO FILMV
BELGIUM LUMIÈRE (GHENT)
BOSNIA AND OBALA ART CENTA
CANADA FILMS WE LIKE
CANADA May 08, 2015 EYESTEELFILM
CZECH REPU Jun 11, 2015 FILM EUROPE (CZ
DENMARK OST FOR PARADIS
ESTONIA MUST KASI / KIN
GERMANY Jan 15, 2015 NEUE VISIONEN F
HUNGARY CIRKO FILM KFT.
ICELAND HEIMILI KVIKMYN
NETHERLAND Jan 29, 2015 LUMIÈRE (AMSTER
POLAND SPECTATOR
PORTUGAL ALAMBIQUE
SLOVAKIA Nov 27, 2014 FILM EUROPE (SL
SLOVENIA RTV SLOVENIJA
SWEDEN FOLKETS BIO
SWITZERLAN Oct 29, 2015 CINÉMATHÈQUE SU
USA Mar 18, 2015 FILM MOVEMENT
USA FILM FORUM


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Festivals and Awards

Austrian Selection 2017


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