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Amour Fou
Set in Berlin, 1810, the movie tells the story of Heinrich von Kleist, a despondent young poet/dramatist, and his lover Henriette Vogel, the wife of a business acquaintance, in the final stages of their lives.
1995
1971
26 April 1967, Dortmund, Germany
2 September 1971, Dresden, East Germany [now Saxony, Germany]
31 July 1956, Bielefeld, Germany
1968, Berlin, Germany
19 February 1953, East Berlin, East Germany
1969, Berlin, Germany
1978, Suhl, East Germany [now Thuringia, Germany]
June 06, 2016
The Austrian director's sixth film is ecstatically original: a work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions.
November 12, 2015
Austrian director Jessica Hausner has fashioned a formal, feminist, wickedly humorous variation on history.
March 18, 2015
It illustrates, both bluntly and gently, the stultifying trap of male influence.
March 18, 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.
March 19, 2015
Despite being inspired by actual events, it all comes off more confounding than tragic or romantic.
March 17, 2015
One thing's certain: This is no swoony love story. It intoxicates all the same.
March 18, 2015
Hausner's film feels authentically quiet and slower-paced for the time period ...
May 20, 2016
Fatally labors under excessively Teutonic discipline.
March 26, 2015
Less than propulsive as a narrative, but provocative, instructive, consistently surprising and a kind of slow-motion thriller.
August 04, 2015
The build-up scenes of talk and philosophising, in salons and sitting rooms, are hypnotic.
