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.
26 April 1967, Dortmund, Germany
19 February 1953, East Berlin, East Germany
1971
20 October 1979, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1995
10 January 1975, Bottrop, Germany
9 March 1979, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
2 September 1971, Dresden, East Germany [now Saxony, Germany]
2001
1971
1968, Berlin, Germany
1967
31 July 1956, Bielefeld, Germany
1978, Suhl, East Germany [now Thuringia, Germany]
1969, Berlin, Germany
November 12, 2015
Austrian director Jessica Hausner has fashioned a formal, feminist, wickedly humorous variation on history.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.August 04, 2015
The build-up scenes of talk and philosophising, in salons and sitting rooms, are hypnotic.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.March 26, 2015
Less than propulsive as a narrative, but provocative, instructive, consistently surprising and a kind of slow-motion thriller.March 18, 2015
It illustrates, both bluntly and gently, the stultifying trap of male influence.May 20, 2016
Fatally labors under excessively Teutonic discipline.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 18, 2015
Hausner's film feels authentically quiet and slower-paced for the time period ...