Amour Fou

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich’s controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate the uncharted journey towards a suicide pact with him, at once awkward and enlightening for them both. Rather than a declaration of passionate devotion, Amour Fou - inspired by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel - goes against expectations to become a wry and curious denunciation of dying for love.

directed by: Jessica Hausner
starring: Birte Schnoeink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossma, Sandra Hüller Lennox, Nigel Terry
2014 / 96 min / 16:9/1.85:1 / German 5.1 surround & 2.0 stereo

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
  
• Commentary Track with Director Jessica Hausner
• Interview with Director Jessica Hausner
• Bonus short: Oida, directed by Jessica Hausner
• Deleted Scenes
• English subtitles