Amour Fou
- Jessica HAUSNER
- Austria , Germany , Luxembourg
- DCP
- 2014
- Color
- 96min
Nominees and Awards
- ★ 2015 Austrian Film Award Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing
- ★ 2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam
- ★ 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Synopsis
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 Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness.
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Director
Jessica HAUSNER
Jessica HAUSNER was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. She studied directing at the Film Academy of Vienna, where she made the award-winning short films Flora (1996) and Inter-View (1999). In 2001, her debut feature , Lovely Rita, premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. She returned to Un Certain Regard with her second feature, Hotel in 2004. In 2009, Lourdes won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Amour Fou was her third film to be presented in Un Certain Regard, premiering in 2014. Little Joe is her fifth feature and her English-language debut.
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